Biography
Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, also UK: siz-AN, 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 endeavor 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. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all".
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Paul Cézanne Still Life with Water Jug
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Paul Cézanne The Gardener Vallier
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Paul Cézanne Montagne Sainte Victoire
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Paul Cézanne The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan
c.1874–5 -
Paul Cézanne The Large Bathers
c.1898
Artist as subject
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William Roberts No! No! Cézanne never used it
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William Roberts Distinguished Visitors at the Tate
1965 -
Bernard Meninsky Notebook
date not known -
Bernard Meninsky Manuscript of Meninsky’s article ‘The appreciation of drawing’
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Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 29
1958–62 -
Bernard Meninsky Slide plans for Meninsky’s talk at the Arts Council
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Julian Trevelyan Scrapbook
1938–40 -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly at Charleston]
[7 June 1919] -
Bernard Meninsky Typescript entitled ‘THE ART OF DRAWING by BERNARD MENINSKY. 2nd Lecture’
[1948]
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