Paul Cézanne was a French painter. He was one of the most influential artists of the late nineteenth century. Initially considered under the umbrella of the Impressionists, he moved beyond this description and formed a link between Impressionism and that which came after. His works are commonly known as Post-impressionist.

Cézanne was born in 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, a small city in the south of France. He went to school there and became friends with the renowned author-to-be Émile Zola. At the age of 18 he began attending a drawing school in Aix, but then went on to study law as his father wished. During this time he continued drawing lessons and at the end of his degree, encouraged by his friend Zola, moved to Paris to pursue his art. In Paris, at the Academie Suisse, he met Camille Pissarro, who was just beginning his own career. At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, Cézanne left Paris, like many others (Monet and Pissarro went to London), to avoid being called up to fight. However, the war was short lived and Cezanne moved back to the Paris region after the birth of his first son, living in Auvers. Pissarro lived in nearby Pontoise and the two often painted together maintaining their close friendship. Cézanne looked up to the older Pissarro, considering himself his pupil. Through the 1870s, Cézanne split his time between Paris and his home region of Provence in the south. From the 1880s he lived and painted mainly in Provence. Cézanne lived long enough to begin to get recognition for his work during the final years of his life. He died in 1906.

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Cézanne’s works in the 1860s are known as his ‘Dark Period’. The paintings are generally dark, moody and intense, such as the portraits shown here. He also liked to paint dark subject matter such as rape and murder. Under the influence of Pissarro, Cézanne took to painting outdoors as most of the impressionists did, and using a brighter palette. This isn’t really seen in the works shown here until the 1876 landscapes. The 1870s is known as Cézanne’s impressionist period, he exhibited at two of the Impressionist exhibitions in the 1870s. But even here his style was very much his own and he was already developing the broad brush strokes and patches of colour that would come to be the signature of his later works. Throughout his career Cézanne also painted many still lifes, such as the two works shown here, ‘The Black Clock’, from 1870, and ‘The Apples’ from 1878. These still lives became studies in how colour and texture could be used to create impressions. Indeed Cézanne is quoted as saying, ‘Avec une pomme, je veux étonner Paris!’, ‘With an apple, I will astonish Paris!’.

See more details in the other videos on this channel:

Paul Cézanne | The Middle Years | 1878 - 1895
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Paul Cézanne | 1895 - 1906 | The Late Years
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