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Biographical Information:
Cezanne, the oldest of the Post-Impressionists, was born in Aix-en-Provence, near the French Mediterranean coast. A man of intensely emotional temperament, he came to Paris in 1861 possessed with enthusiasm for the Romantics. By 1872 Cezanne came strongly under the influence of the Impressionists, especially Pissarro. Less concerned than Monet or Pissarro with the scintillation of light of the haze of atmosphere, he stressed the tangible substance of objects and gave a more definite compositional structure to his paintings. He painted bright outdoor scenes, but never shared his fellow Impressionists' interest in "slice-of-life" subjects, in movement and change. As a Post-Impressionist, he passed through an Impressionist phase but became dissatisfied with the limitations of the style and went beyond it in various directions. Like Manet, Cezanne broke the traditional roles of chiaroscuro: instead of modeling in a continuous scale of tones from dark to light, he treats the shadows as shapes in their own rights with solid borders. He was bolder than Manet in his disregard of the logic of external appearance and concentrated on the inner logic of the design. During the 1880s and 1890s he achieved his fullest mastery, he painted landscapes, still lives and figure compositions that rank among the highest achievements of 19th century painting. Now his Romantic impulsiveness gave way to a patient, disciplined search for harmony of form and color. His mature style is characterized by forms that are deliberately simplified and outlined with dark contours. He took liberties with the representation of reality and believed that all forms in nature are based on the cone, the sphere and the cylinder. This order underlying the external world was the true subject of his pictures. He applied this method to landscape in the later stages of his career and lived from 1882 on in isolation near his hometown, exploring his environment on canvas. In 1907, one year after his death, a retrospective exhibition of his work had a profound effect on Matisse, Picasso and Braque; the revolutionary impact of his work on 20th-century art was beginning to be felt. Cezanne's contribution to modern art was a new concept of realism and pictorial form. In contrast to the lyrical naturalism of the Romantics and the Materialism of Courbet, he understood realism as being a matter of reconstruction, not imitation. Painting for him was the "realization" of impressions received from nature, the translation of unpaintable facts of space into colors and shapes.
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Artists Works:
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
Cezanne, Paul
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