Cézanne's Life

Author: Ma Bo
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), born in Aix, a historic city near Provence in southern France, entered university to study law at the age of 19. At 22, he went to Paris to study painting and met artists such as Picasso, Manet, and Renoir. Cezanne's greatest achievement was his unprecedented analysis of color and light. This differed from the impressionist painters' focus on capturing surface impressions. He had a keen sense of the structure and relationship between color in his paintings. In his approach to painting, Cezanne pursued a sense of flatness, using color to express space. He emphasized the expression of ideas and the pursuit of structural beauty in painting, advocating that art should break free from literary and narrative elements, highlighting the expressive power of painting itself and the inherent beauty of the subject. Cezanne's innovative spirit in painting was highly valued by Western artists of the 20th century, earning him the title of "Father of Modern Painting."