Paul Cézanne

he was, beside Gauguin and van Gogh, the biggest, French post impressionistic painters. His work laid the foundations of the crossing of the artistic 19-th century to a new and radically different world of the art in the 20-th century.

Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, as a son of a care trader, Louis-Auguste Cézanne who became later a well-to-do banker and granted to him financial security and, in the end, a big inheritance which was not available most of his contemporaries. His financial situation enabled to him to survive the disinterest compared with his work which continued up to the last decade of his life.

One can say, Paul Cézanne forms the bridge between the end of the impressionism of the 19-th century and the beginning of the new line of the 20-th century, the cubism. His work demonstrates a control of design, colour, composition and craft skill.

In his career Paul Cézanne is interested in works of the direct observation and developed bit by bit a light, aerial painting style which influenced the impressionists terrifically. In the ripe work of Paul Cézanne we see the development of a consolidated, almost architectural style of the painting. Of Paul Cézanne to often repeating, sensitive, searching brushstrokes are highly typical and clearly recognizable. Colour surfaces and small brushstrokes using which were based up to complicated fields immediately a direct expression of the impressions of the observant eye as well as an abstraction of the observed nature building, carry Paul Cézanne''s pictures intensive studies of his subjects, a thorough look and a stubborn fight to deal with the complexity of the human visual perception.

Paul's Cézanne pictures were shown in the first exhibit of the drawing room of the Refusés in 1863 which did not show accepted works from the jury of the official Paris Salon. The drawing room rejected Paul Cézanne''s submissions every year from 1864 to 1869. Paul Cézanne continued presenting his works to the drawing room till 1882. By intervention of the artist's colleague Antoine Guillemet, put Paul Cézanne " the portrait of the father of the artist ", in 1866, his first and last participation in the drawing room.

Before 1895 Paul Cézanne had exhibited twice with the impressionists (with the first impressionistic exhibit in 1874 and the third impressionistic exhibit in 1877). During later years some individual pictures were shown with different opportunities than the Paris trader, Ambroise Vollard, in 1895 to the artist gave his first solo exhibit. In spite of the increasing public recognition and the finance success Paul Cézanne decided to work in reinforced artistic isolation, normally in his beloved Provence, far from Paris.