Works of Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne was born(p) in 1839 in the southern French town of genus Aix-en-Provence. He was the word of honor of a wealthy banker. He became interested in fine art at an early age, which did not please his start. Cezanne was educated at the College Bourbon at Aix, where he befriended Emile Zola. Both Cezanne and Zola decided they would like to devote themselves to art. Zola settled down to a literary career in Paris, but Cezanne, after a of a sudden period as a law student, decided to go with his fathers wishes that he should carry on the management of the family bank.He failed in this however, and was allowed to settle in Paris and attend the Atelier Suisse, where he was anticipate to prepare for the examinations of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, which coincidentally, he never passed. He became known as one of the most extreme revolutionary painters. He became acquainted with the classify of painters who encircled Manet and were later known as the Impressionists. During this pe riod, he was most influenced by Delacroix and by the baroque painters that Delacroix studied, by Rubens and Tintoretto.The discolor theories of Delacroix combined with the law of coincidental contrast formulated by the chemist Michel Chevreul, by the end of the 1860s were beginning to be taken up by the young artists that Cezanne was well-known(prenominal) with. Cezannes ambition was to create grandiose compositions of a purely originative description, expressive of his own moods, using either violently dramatic themes as he did in Les Assassins or LAutopsie, or lyrical motifs, such(prenominal) as Le Judgement de Paris, or Dejeuner sur lherbe.Cezanne also painted a series of portraits in which dramatic and mental effects were undertoned. In all these early works, the color is reduced to a few simple notes in which black, white, earth reds, and yellows predominate. He showed at this phase nothing of the curiosity about natural effects of color which terrific the Impressionist group. During the years 1872-1873, a great change came oer Cezanne. He spent the summers of these years at Auvers-sur-Oise in the company of Camille Pissarro, one of the maiden Impressionistic painters.Pissarro was older than Cezanne and had already discovered his personal style and ameliorate a methodical and precise technique adapted to it. For the first cartridge clip Cezanne in condition(p) to look on nature with a curiosity and learned the process of recording the results that were obtained. And above all, the whole world of atmosphere color was revealed to him. Certain pictures painted by Cezanne in these years resemble in truth nearly Pissarros work, but they show Cezannes reater power over organizing form.For these years, Cezanne may be In the last decade of the 19th light speed belong some of Cezannes most celebrated works. These include the portrait of Geffroy, which could be unequaled in modern art for the completeness of its realization and the complexness and assu rance of harmonies, several pictures of men seated at a coffeehouse table and playing cards, and a series of landscapes dominated by the cud of Mont Sainte-Victoire.At the very end of his life, there seems to have been a tax return of the romantic tendencies of his youth. His paintings became more richer, more intense, and vivid in color. In the eighties and 1890s, his name had become almost unknown in the larger art circles of Paris. However, his fame began to gradually circulate among artists, and in 1904 an exhibition of his works in the autumn salon revealed to the public this unknown genius. Most of his fame came posthumously, as Cezanne died at Aix in 1906.