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Painter · Printmaker
A French painter who pursued a unique sense of composition while departing from Impressionism. He reconsidered nature as a relationship between color and form, and served as a bridge to modern painting. Cezanne is also called the "father of modern painting."
View in catalogAix-en-Provence
Birth
Paris
Work
The Card Players
1890–1895
Painting
Mont Sainte-Victoire series
1880–1906
Painting
Post-Impressionism
1880–1906
Movement · Participant
Map: Natural Earth (PD)
Born in Aix-en-Provence, he interacted with artists in Paris. Although he was associated with the Impressionist painters, he focused his attention not only on the momentary light but also on the overall structure of the painting.
He repeatedly painted Mount Sainte-Victoire and still life paintings, exploring his subjects as combinations of shapes such as cylinders, spheres, and cones. In works such as ``People Playing Cards,'' he achieved both a profound composition and color.
Cézanne distanced himself from the sociable art world of Paris and persistently painted landscapes around his hometown. His seemingly simple and repetitive production prepared for a major shift that would later lead to Cubism.
Studying Cezanne makes it easier to understand the changes from Impressionism to 20th century avant-garde art. His analysis of form influenced Picasso and Braque, paving the way for painting to move from a literal reproduction to an exploration of composition. It is a reference point for reading the flow of modern art.
