Artist: Paul Cezanne (French 1839-1906)

Cezanne, Paul Biography

Although critical sympathy and public acceptance came to Cezanne only in the last decade of his career, his quest to see through appearances to the logic of underlying formal structure always drew admiration among his colleagues. His hope that his oil paintings would serve as a form of education for other artists was achieved when a number of important painters purchased his work, including Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Kazimir Malevich, Henri Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp. A 1907 retrospective showing of his works (56 oil paintings) was held at the Salon d'Automne in Paris and won considerable acclaim. That same year Picasso created his seminal Demoiselles d'Avignon, clearly inspired by Cezanne's groundbreaking Bathers of 1900-05. Indeed, Cezanne's intellectual approach to formal issues-particularly his spatial explorations-laid the foundation forPicasso and other artists' subsequent explorations with Cubism, while his investigations of colour and brushstroke influenced Matisse and other Fauve artists in the first decade of the century.

Picasso offered the most succinct assessment of Cezanne's role for subsequent generations of artists, declaring that he was "the father of us all."

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