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Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Cezanne was a shy man from a well-to-do family. He spent some time in
Paris absorbing Impressionist influences,
but eventually returned to the countryside of Aix-en-
Provence where he painted in artistic isolation. His
color was more restrained than the Impressionists; Cezanne was much more
concerned with manipulating perspective and geometrical pictorial
structure.
Cezanne sets up what appears to be a traditional still life, but as the viewer moves through the painting it becomes apparent that the viewpoint is shifting from one object to another. The painting begins
to suggest a more organic sense of space than rigid traditional perspective allows for.
From 1885 to 1906, Cezanne painted Mount Sainte-Victoire about 60 times, seen from many angles and through dramatic changes in his
painting style. The earlier work is marked by deep space and the suggestion of many landscape details...
As time went on the paintings became more abstract — less concerned with factual details and more concerned with flat
geometric structure of the picture.
The last paintings reduce the scene to a patchwork of colors in a strikingly abstract manner. Cezanne’s paintings led the way to
Cubism in the following years.