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The Cardplayers (1892)
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After the birth of his son, he moved to
Pontoise, just outside of Paris, where Pissarro lived. The 2 men spent
time painting together. Pissarro introduced him to Impressionism, and
his work was exhibited alongside the other impressionists in the now famous
1874 exhibition (held in the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar).
Although Pissarro continued to paint faithfully
from nature, Cezanne began to react against such a lack of structure.
He said he wanted to create something 'solid and durable, like the art
of the museums'. He turned his attention to still life, painting over
200. His most famous still-life painting is 'Apples and Oranges', as he
demonstrated his analysis of nature stating that the most common underlying
geometric shape of nature is the 'cylinder, sphere and the cone'.
In later years Cezanne was to become reclusive,
to such an extent that painters in Paris thought he was dead. It wasn't
until his late 50's that his works began to attract the acclaim they deserved.
The famous art dealer Ambroise Vollard organised an exhibition of his
works in 1895. It had been 20 years since his works had been seen in the
capital. 2 years later Vollard bought every painting in Cezanne's studio,
and admirers started travelling to visit him.
Important popular works in his artistic
career include, Still Life with a Curtain (1895), A Lunch on Grass (c.1873-75)
(Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris), Boy in a Red Waistcoat (c.1888)
(Bührle collection, Zurich) and The Smoker (c.1895) (The Hermitage,
St. Petersburg).
Although Cezanne's health deteriorated
in later life, he still made the short journey to his studio to paint
everyday. He usually travelled by carriage, and one day, angered by the
increase in the fare, he decided to walk. It started to rain, he caught
a chill, which turned to pneumonia. A week later, in October 1906, he
died. Cezanne's influence on the history
of art was huge. A master of all painting genres, his use of colour
had something in common with other post-impressionists Paul Gaugin and
Vincent Van Gogh. But it was his constant search for an underlying structure
to composition that paved the way for Cubism
and Abstraction in the 20th century. A retrospective of his works took
place in 1907 at the Salon d'Automne. He constantly questioned what he
saw and how he represented it on canvas, an approach continued after his
death by still life artists like Giorgio
Morandi, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris.
Works by Paul Cezanne hang in the best
art museums around the world.
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