Paul Cezanne was a French painter, often called the father of modern art, who strove to develop a synthesis of naturalistic representation, personal expression, and abstraction.
Cezanne was born in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence, January 19, 1839, the son of a wealthy banker.
Cezanne himself spoke of "modulating" with color rather than"modeling" which he said, was "parallel to nature".
Cezanne, from 1863, regularly proposes paintings to the jury of the Official Salon : they will always be refused (with an exception, a portrait, in 1882), in spite of his efforts and the supports of which it could lay out.
Cezanne was among all of them he who excited and was to excite a long time the most horror.
Cezanne who was disparaged at his beginnings, and still late in his life, appears today to be a capital figure in art history.
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