Who is Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, also UK: sə-ZAN, US: say-ZAHN; French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.While his early works are still influenced by Romanticism - such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house - and Realism, he arrived at a new pictorial language through intensive examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He gave up the use of perspective and broke with the establish...
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- I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
- My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
- I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
- I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
- When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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The_art_guide: paul cézanne 'still life, sugar bowl, pears and blue cup' 1865 - 1870Welfordwrites: the old man and the mountain: a story inspired by the life of paul cezanne.
Twitbotfl: "the awareness of our own strength makes us modest." - paul cezanne
Balqees11__: paul cezanne - a painter at work - 1875
Melaniejaxn: when i judge art, i take my painting and put it next to a god made object like a tree or flower. if it clashes, it is not art. – paul cezanne
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