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| Cezanne |
January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906
Paul Cézanne, the painter of and from Aix-en-Provence, is the bridge
from Impressionism to Cubism. In paintings such as the 1885 Mont Sainte-Victoire
and 1887 Madame Cézanne we can see the inspiration for the Cubists
and even the Fauvists.
Cézanne began with the light, airy painting of the Impressionists and gradually solidified it and made it more architectural. His painting began to concentrate on solid forms and on the modelling of these forms in colors.
To early 20th Century Modernists, Cézanne was the founder of modern painting. Henri Matisse called him "the father of us all".
Cézanne and the important novelist Émile Zola were friends from childhood and youth, but broke in later life over Zola's fictionalized depiction of Cézanne in the novel L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece, 1886).
On May 10, 1999, Cézanne's painting Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier sold for US$ 60.5 million, the fourth highest price paid for a painting up to that time.
Paul Cezanne
A little bit of green,
a little bit of brown, where did I put my brush?
1839-1906
if you're rich you can work away in a room on your own well away from critics or people telling you you're rubbish. So did Cezanne, and made a body of work that wasn't wholeheartedly supported until, as usual, he'd had the grace to die.
A man who loved geometry, who wasn't happy unless reducing a shape he could see into several others that he could only imagine. Using bright colours that anticipated the Fauves and Derain, his simple building blocks inspired teh cubists, letting them know that it was alright to break the image up into smaller more manageable pieces.
A genius? Not quite. But a good painter with his own ideas, and not afraid to stick to them.
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