Paul Cezanne The Father of Modern Art 18391906

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Paul CezanneThe Father of Modern Art1839-1906
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Self Portrait(oil on canvas painted 1878 80)

• Visionary-ahead of his time
• Innovative style
• Found new ways to paint that influenced other
  artists
• Thought impressionist style paintings didnt show
  solid enough form

Pablo Picasso said about Paul Cezanne "My one
and only master . . . Cezanne was like the father
of us all" So Paul Cezanne is often called the
"father of modern art
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Man With Pipe(oil on canvas painted 1892 - 96 )

• Born in 1839 southern French town of
  Aix-en-Provence (X ahn Pro vahnce)
• An outsider who was misunderstood most of his
  life

He started out using dark sad colors in his
paintings. This time in his life is also known as
"constructive", he used parallel, hatched
brushstrokes that gave the painting a way to look
like the objects were solid.
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Ginger Jar and Fruit(oil on canvas painted
1895)

• Thanks to an artist named Pissarro, he was
  introduced to well known Impressionist painters
  such as
• Manet
• Degas
• Used color with passion and creativity

Pissarro's influence is seen through the
somewhat light bright colors Picasso developed
Cezanne's planar pictures into cubism Matisse
greatly admired his use of color
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Apples and Oranges(oil on canvas painted 1899)

• Painted more than 200 still life paintings
• One of his most famous
• Paints slightest variation in color over long
  periods of time
• Shapes from nature most frequent
• Cylindar, sphere, cone

Reacted against lack of structure in
Impressionism and wanted to make Impressionism
into something that was solid and durable, like
the art of the museums
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Nature morte (oil on canvas painted 1900)

• Use of
• Perspective
• Composition
• Color
• Brush strokes
• Structure
• Solidity
• Durability

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Le Mont Sainte-Victoire(oil on canvas painted
1890 - 94 )

• In 1881, Cezanne's brother-in-law bought a house
  with a view on the
• Saint-Victoire mountain.
• He felt this mountain in his pictures is
  different from what the other artists called
  Impressionists had in their paintings. His had
• firmness
• solidity
• permanence

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Mont Sainte-Victoire (oil on canvas painted
1890-94)