Paul Cezanne
Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézannewas a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth19 January 1839
CityAix-en-Provence, France
CountryFrance
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
I allow no one to touch me.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
I advance all of my canvas at one time.