CEZANNE PAUL

FRENCH ( 1839 - 1906 )

Paul Cézanne, or Paul Cezanne, born January 19, 1839 in Aix-en-Provence and died October 22, 1906 in the same city, was a French painter, a member of the Impressionist movement for a time and considered the precursor of post-Impressionism and of cubism.

By his desire to make "Poussin on nature", he appears as a continuator of the French classical spirit as much as a radical innovator by the use of geometry in the portraits, still lifes and the many landscapes he paints. , Île-de-France and Provence, particularly the Aix-en-Provence countryside. In particular, he produced a series of canvases with the Sainte-Victoire mountain as a motif. He is considered the "father of modern art