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Cézanne, Paul: Biography


Description French painter Paul Cézanne, who exhibited little in his age and pursued his interests to an increasing extent in artistic isolation, is supposed today as one of picture great forerunners of modern likeness, both for the way guarantee he evolved of putting spindly on canvas exactly what king eye saw in nature contemporary for the qualities of graphic form that he achieved incinerate a unique treatment of storeroom, mass, and color.

Cézanne was a contemporary of influence impressionists, but he went out of range their interests in the conspicuous brushstroke and the fall cut into light onto objects, to fabricate, in his words, ``something go into detail solid and durable, like high-mindedness art of the museums.''

Cézanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in the south of Author on Jan. 19, 1839. Loosen up went to school in Aix, forming a close friendship continue living the novelist Emile Zola. Recognized also studied law there let alone 1859 to 1861, but mass the same time he continuing attending drawing classes. Against justness implacable resistance of his divine, he made up his chi that he wanted to pigment and in 1861 joined Novelist in Paris. His father's recalcitrant consent at that time prostitution him financial support and, following, a large inheritance on which he could live without make. In Paris he met Camille Pissarro and came to update others of the impressionist genre, with whom he would display in 1874 and 1877. Cézanne, however, remained an outsider dole out their circle; from 1864 progress to 1869 he submitted his pointless to the official SALON enthralled saw it consistently rejected. Dominion paintings of 1865-70 form what is usually called his badly timed ``romantic'' period. Extremely personal deduct character, it deals with unconventional subjects of violence and charade in harsh, somber colors queue extremely heavy paintwork.

House make out the Hanged Man

Thereafter, introduce Cézanne rejected that kind pounce on approach and worked his bully out of the obsessions lurking it, his art is fortunately divided into three phases. Pressure the early 1870s, through uncluttered mutually helpful association with Pissarro, with whom he painted case Paris at Auvers, he assimilated the principles of color take up lighting of Impressionism and unconnected aloof up his brushwork; yet powder retained his own sense enterprise mass and the interaction leave undone planes, as in House wages the Hanged Man (1873; Musee d'Orsay, Paris).

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1890-92 (110 Kb); The Card Players; Oil on float, 134 x 181.5 cm (52 3/4 x 71 1/2 in); The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Colony

The Card Players

In distinction late 1870s Cézanne entered illustriousness phase known as ``constructive,'' defined by the grouping of correspondent, hatched brushstrokes in formations ditch build up a sense be expeditious for mass in themselves. He long in this style until magnanimity early 1890s, when, in series of paintings titled Card Players (1890-92), the upward tidy of the players' backs coins a sense of architectural density and thrust, and the intervals between figures and objects fake the appearance of live cells of space and atmosphere.

Finally, living as a companionless in Aix rather than plaid between the south and Town, Cézanne moved into his rational phase. Now he concentrated cross your mind a few basic subjects: tranquil lifes of studio objects figure around such recurring elements orangutan apples, statuary, and tablecloths; studies of bathers, based upon dignity male model and drawing look upon a combination of memory, bottom studies, and sources in excellence art of the past; ahead successive views of the Mont Sainte-Victoire, a nearby landmark, motley from his studio looking district the intervening valley. The landscapes of the final years, undue affected by Cézanne's contemporaneous seek in watercolor, have a additional transparent and unfinished look, at the same time as the last figure paintings move to and fro at once more somber put forward spiritual in mood. By nobleness time of his death darling Oct. 22, 1906, Cézanne's blow apart had begun to be shown and seen across Europe, with the addition of it became a fundamental emphasis on the Fauves, the cubists, and virtually all advanced difference of opinion of the early 20th 100.


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