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Summary of Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was the preeminent French artist of the Post-Impressionist era, widely appreciated toward the end of his life for insisting that painting stay in touch with its material, virtually sculptural origins. Also known as the "Master of Aix" after his ancestral home in the South of France, Cézanne is credited with paving the way for the emergence of twentieth-century modernism, both visually and conceptually. In retrospect, his work constitutes the most powerful and essential link between the ephemeral aspects of Impressionism and the more materialist, artistic movements of Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, and even complete abstraction.

Accomplishments

• Unsatisfied with the Impressionist dictum that painting is primarily a reflection of visual perception, Cézanne sought to make of his artistic practice a new kind of analytical discipline. In his hands, the canvas itself takes on the role of a screen where an artist's visual sensations are registered as he gazes intensely, and often repeatedly, at a given subject.
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  His life

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  Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, on January 19th, 1839. His father, a hatter who became a banker in 1848, did not marry with Anne-Elisabeth Aubert, mother of his son Paul, until 1844, when Paul was enrolled at the elementary school of Epineaux Street. From 1844 to 1858, Paul Cézanne was registered at Saint-Joseph’s Catholic school, then at the Bourbon school, present-day Mignet school, where he obtained a liberal arts diploma with the grade “average”, on November 12th, 1858. It is in the school’s playground in 1852 that Paul Cézanne met Émile Zola, with whom he frequently went for walks in the Aix countryside. From 1857 to 1862, Paul enrolled in the free municipal school of drawing where he won the second prize in drawing in 1859.
  In 1858, Émile Zola left Aix for Paris and Cézanne planned to join him there. In April 1861, he finally convinced his father to let him devote his life to painting and joined Emile in Paris. Disappointed by this first visit, he returned to Aix in September and worked as an employe

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  Paul Cézanne Biography

  Paul Cézanne, who exhibited paintings rarely and lived progressively more in creative isolation, is considered nowadays as one of the greatest pioneers of modern art and painting, equally for the method that he evolved of putting down on canvas exactly what his eye saw in nature and for the qualities of form that he accomplished all the way through a unique dealing with space and color.
  
  He lived at the same tame with the impressionists, but went further than their goal of the personality brushstroke and the drop of light onto things, to build, as he say: "something more concrete and solid, similar to the art of the museums.''
  
  Cézanne was born in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence, January 19, 1839, the son of a wealthy banker. His boyhood companion was Emile Zola, who later gained fame as a novelist and man of letters . As did Zola, Cézanne developed artistic interests at an early age, much to the dismay of his father. In 1862, after a number of bitter family disputes, the aspiring artist was given a small allowance and sent to study a