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Why is Cezanne important?

CONSIDER HIS REPUTATION

* Paul Cézanne is considered by many to be the most influential painter of the late 19th century.

* He is often referred to as the "father of modern painting" (Henri Matisse once called Cézanne, "...the father of us all.")

* Cezanne is a prominent Post-Impressionist painter. He responded to the limitations of Impressionism and created a new artistic vocabulary which synthesized reality and abstraction. This in turn became a critical influence on early Modernism.

* Many curators consider him to be a very important influence. His work stands at the transition between art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Museums have made his work pivotal to the organisation of their collection of paintings

* Pablo Picasso readily admitted his great debt to the elder master.

WHAT WAS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE WAY CEZANNE PAINTED?

* Cezanne emphasised the process of painting and studied form and colour

* He identified form using those which he considered to be those most frequently found in nature - the 'cylinder, sphere and the cone'.

* He developed a way of seeing which emphasised planes - which was developed subsequently by Picasso and others as cubism

* His paintings record minute variations in tone and colour observed over long periods

* He left the paper blank - as a colour - when painting in watercolour

WHAT SUBJECTS DID HE PAINT?

* Cézanne almost single-handedly revived the still life as a legitimate subject for modern painting.

* Cezanne did not travel much and is very much associated with the landscapes of Provence.

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CEZANNE'S LIFE

Overview of the life and work of Paul Cezanne

These sites provide biographical overviews of Cezanne's life. Cézanne is pronounced 'Say-zahn'

Paul Cézanne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Paul Cézanne on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WebMuseum: Cézanne, Paul: Cézanne, Paul(b. Jan. 19, 1839, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.--d. Oct. 22, 1906, Aix-en-Provence)French painter, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose
works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many
20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism.
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906): Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Visionary ahead of his time, Cezanne's innovative style, use of perspective, composition and color profoundly influenced 20th century art. Picasso developed Cezanne's planar compositions into cubism, and Matisse greatly admired his use of color. He used color with passion and creativity, giving his brush strokes structure, solidity, durability. Pablo Picasso said the following of the artist "My one and only master . . . Cezanne was like the father of us all". Cezanne is therefore often described as the "father of modern art". Unfortunately, Cezanne was the ultimate outsider and misunderstood during most of his life.
Paul Cézanne - Olga's Gallery: Paul Cézanne was born into a family of Italian origin in Cesana Forinese. His father had established a felt hat business in Aix-en-Provence and later became a banker. In 1859 he bought a country house on the outskirts of Aix, the Jas de Bouffan, which was to be frequently represented in Cézanne's paintings.
The Artchive: Paul Cezanne: Paul Cezanne - biography and images
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Paul Cezanne - timeline
WebMuseum: Cézanne, Paul: Cézanne early work: Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)early work
Paul Cézanne Biography - Biography.com: Learn about the life of Paul Cézanne at Biography.com. Read Biographies, watch interviews and videos.
Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionist Artist, Still Life Genre Painter, Pioneer of Cubism, Biography, Paintings, Still Lifes: Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionist Genre Painter, Still Life Artist, Influenced Cubism, Biography, Paintings, Still Lifes

A chronology of the life of Paul Cezanne

NGA - Cézanne in Provence: A Provençal Chronology of Cézanne:

This chronology comes from the website of the 2006 Cezanne exhibition at the National Gallery of art in Washington

1839-1849: Cézanne in Provence
1850-1859: Cézanne in Provence
1860-1869: Cézanne in Provence
1870-1879: Cézanne in Provence
1880-1889: Cézanne in Provence
1890-1899: Cézanne in Provence
1900-1906: Cézanne in Provence

BOOKS: The Life of Cezanne

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CEZANNE'S PLACES AND LANDSCAPES

Maps of where Cezanne painted

Find out where exactly Cezanne painted when he was in Provence

Cézanne gained inspiration from the Aix-en-Provence. He said the area "conceals treasures which have not yet found the artist capable of expressing the riches to be discovered here".

These are the places associated with Cezanne
Jas de Bouffan - 17 Route de Galice Aix-en-Provence
Jas de Bouffan is the 17th-century country house his father, Louis-Auguste Cezanne, bought on 15 September 1859. They moved in around 1870. Between 1881 and 1885, the roof of the house had to be replaced and he made a little studio in the attic for his son Paul. After the death of his father in 1886, Cézanne set up his studio in the large room on the ground floor. On 18 September 1899, two years after the death of Mrs Cezanne, Cezanne and his two sisters sold Jas de Bouffan.

L'Atelier des Lauves. Cézanne's Studio - 9 avenue Paul Cézanne 13090 Aix-en-Provence
In November 1901, Cézanne bought a small country property on the Lauves hillside which was surrounded by agricultural land, olive and fig trees and bordered by the Verdon canal. The Atelier des Lauves, a two-story structure that still exists, gave Cézanne the privacy he craved while placing him closer to favorite motifs such as the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. This was Cézanne's last studio - which I have visited - and it contains objects seen in his still life paintings done in later life.

The Sainte-Victoire mountain
This provided a constant source of fascination to the artist. He painted the 1,000 metre mountain for the first time in 1870, and then again in 1885-86.

Chateau Noir
The Chateau Noir is on the D17 between Aix and the Mont Sainte Victoire.

The Bibemus Quarries
Cezanne painted a series of landscapes at Bibemus stone quarries at the foot of Mount Saint-Victoire

NGA - Cézanne in Provence: Map: Aix-en-Provence: Cézanne in Provence: a map of where Cezanne painted around Aix-en-Provence
Jas de Bouffan - Cézanne en Provence: Jas de Bouffan - For the banker's son, the country house bought by his father in 1859 was not only a home, an anchor, and a studio whose walls received his first works, but also a source of permanent inspiration until 1899.
NGA - Cézanne in Provence: Map: Jas de Bouffan: Cézanne in Provence: Map of where Cezanne painted at Jas de Bouffan
Sainte-Victoire - Cézanne en Provence: "For a long time I was not able, I did not know how to paint Sainte-Victoire, because I imagined the shadow as concave, like the others who do not really look at it, yet all the while, look at it, it is convex, it runs out from its center. Instead of being condensed, it evaporates, become fluid. Completely bluish, it takes part in breathing the air around it."
Cezanne
NGA - Cézanne in Provence: Maps: Château Noir: Cézanne in Provence: Map of where Cezanne painted - Chateau Noir
The Path to Bibemus - Cézanne en Provence: When Cézanne first set up his easel in the middle of the quarries, they had not been used in several decades. Their exploitation began during the Roman period at the end of the 18th century. The calcareous molasse walls still bore slanted grooves from the blows of the quarry workers' picks as they extracted blocks of stone. In this chaotic deserted landscape, Cézanne painted eleven oils and sixteen watercolors between 1895 and 1904.
Cezanne - Aix en Provence - Paul Cezanne studio: Paul Cezanne studio - Flash animation - Visits - Discovery - Saint-Victoire Mount - News - In the footsteps of Cezanne- Pictural Way - Shopping- Informations - Map of Aix en Provence - Main places in Aix - Studio's history - Life and work of the master from Aix - Pictures - Search engine about Cezanne studio - Live studio
Louvre - a photograph of Cezanne with plein air kit on back: A rather famous photograph of Cezanne

Chateau Noir

19 oil paintings and 20 watercolours

From 1887 onwards, Cezanne rented a small room in the pistachio tree courtyard.

He invited me for an outing to Chateau Noir... One sunny afternoon, he came to pick us up in a car that he rented by the year so that, if he was tired, he could get to his subject or to his studio outside the town. We all left in high spirits, and followed a road which became more and morelovely. Atlastwesawsomepinewoods,andhemademegetout to have a better look at the place, which we explored together. Despite his age, he was extremely agile and was able to clamber across the rocks"
(Emile Bernard).

Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Les Lauves

44 oil paintings and 43 watercolours

Cezanne chose the highest viewpoint of the mountain when he set his easel near Chemin de Marguerite. Between 1902 and 1906, he often returned to complete 11 oils on canvas and 17 watercolours which today residen in the great museums of the world or prestigious private collections

The city of Aix-en-Provence has created the painters' ground (terrain des peintres) within the Marguerite Estate. Opposite the mountain which, from this angle, becomes a figurehead, ten panels depict the main views of Mont Sainte-Victoire as painted by Cezanne from Chemin de la Marguerite.

Features of the Provencal landscape which are evident in the paintings - and can still be seen to day - include wheat fields, road to the Alps, red roofs of houses and the power plant.

In February 1904, Emile Bernard accompanied Cezanne to paint his famous motif
"It was two kilometres from the studio, facing a valley, at the foot of Sainte-Victoire, that bold mountain that he never stopped painting in watercolour and oil, and which filled him with admiration.

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CEZANNE AND STILL LIFE

BOOK: Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors

by Carol Armstrong. Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University

In the last years of his life, Paul Cezanne produced a stunning series of watercolours, many of them still lifes. Still Life with Blue Pot is one of these late masterpieces; it is now in the collection of the Getty Museum. In Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, Carol Armstrong places this great painting within the context of Cezanne's artistic and psychological development and of the history of the genre of still life in France.

Still life - like the medium of watercolour - was traditionally considered to be "low" in the hierarchy of French academic painting. Cezanne chose to ignore this hierarchy, creating monumental still-life watercolours that contained echoes of grand landscapes and even historical paintings in the manner of Poussin - the "highest" of classical art forms. In so doing, he charged his still lifes with new meanings; both in terms of his own notoriously difficult personality and in the way he used the genre to explore the very process of looking at, and creating, art.

Carol Armstrong's study - published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from October 12, 2004 to January 2, 2005 - is a fascinating exploration of the brilliant watercolour paintings that brought Cezanne's career to a complex, and triumphant, conclusion. The book includes new photographic studies of the Getty's painting that allow the reader to encounter this great watercolour as never before - in its full richness and detail.

Cezanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors

by: Carol Armstrong

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Cezanne and Still Life

Cézanne was preoccupied with still life, and painted the same objects over and over again. His concentrated study of familiar items enabled him to develop a new way of capturing his visual sensations. He believed that conventional perspective, which uses a single viewpoint, did not accurately reflect the way that we perceive the world.
Tate Museum - Cezanne

smARThistory » Blog Archive » Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1895-98 (MoMA) — an enhanced podcast: Cezanne, Still Life with Apples, 1895-98 (MoMA) — an enhanced podcast
Smarthistory, a multimedia web-book about art: discussing The Basket of Apples: Focuses on Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples, oil on canvas, 1893 (Art Institute of Chicago)
Artchive - Paul Cezanne - Images of Still Lifes: Paul Cezanne - STILL LIFES
WebMuseum: Cezanne, Paul: Still Life galleria: Cezanne, Paul: Still Life galleria
Paul Cézanne, one of the creators of modern art, was called the ``solidifier of Impressionism''. And indeed he does not draw his picture before painting it: instead, he creates space and depth of perspective by means of planes of color, which are freely associated and at the same time contrasted and compared. The facets which are thus produced create not just one but many perspectives, and in this way volume comes once again to dominate the composition, no longer a product of the line but rather of the color itself. His still-lifes, in their simplicity and delicate tonal harmony, are a typical work and thus ideal for an understanding of Cézanne's art.

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CEZANNE'S WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS

BOOK: Cezanne's Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting

by Matthew Simms, Associate Professor of Art History, California State University, Long Beach

Cézanne's watercolors exhibit not only kaleidoscopic arrays of translucent color but also very light graphite pencil lines that contrast strikingly with the soft watery touches of color. These drawn lines have been largely overlooked in previous studies of Cézanne's watercolors.

In this ravishing book, Matthew Simms argues that it was the dialogue between drawing and painting-the movement between the pencil and the paintbrush-that attracted Cézanne to watercolor.

Watercolor allowed Cézanne to express what he termed his "sensations" in two distinct modes that become a record of his shifting and spontaneous responses to his subject. Combining close visual analysis and examination of historical context, Simms focuses on the counterpoint of drawing and color in Cézanne's watercolors over the course of his career and as viewed in relation to his oil paintings.

More than a tool for sketching or preparing for oil paintings, Simms contends, watercolor was a unique means of expression in its own right that allowed Cézanne to combine in one place the two otherwise opposed mediums of drawing and painting.

Cezanne's Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting

by: Mr. Matthew Simms

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Reviews of Cezanne's watercolours

Cézanne painted watercolor still lifes throughout his career.

At the end of his career, between 1902 and 1906, he made his largest, most complicated watercolor still lifes in his final studio at Les Lauves, near his native Aix-en-Provence. Today the studio is open as a museum and preserves a number of the objects that he painted in his still lifes.

Cézanne in the Studio (Getty Exhibitions): This Getty exhibition highlights the intersection between the genre of still life and the medium of watercolor in the oeuvre of Paul Cézanne.
Cézanne's Watercolors: Cézanne's Watercolors
The Path to Cubism:
Cézanne's Geometricization in His Forest WatercolorsNorris Novak, Princeton Class of 2008He started with the graphite pencil, etching the image and the textures.

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CEZANNE IN GALLERIES & EXHIBITIONS

Cezanne's art in online galleries

These online sites provide an accessible overview of Cezanne's paintings for those who want to learn more about his art. I recommend The Athenaeum as a resource for learning.

The Athenaeum - Displaying artworks for Paul Cezanne RECOMMENDED: The Athenaeum - Displaying 498 artworks for Paul Cezanne
Allpaintings - Paul Cezanne: Images by Paul Cézanne
Artchive - Paul Cezanne - Early works: Paul Cezanne images and biography
WebMuseum: Cezanne, Paul: Landscapes RECOMMENDED: Cezanne, Paul: Landscapes
Cézanne immortalized the Provençal countryside with his broad, panoramic views. Often these are framed in branches, sometimes with architectural elements, but seldom with human activity. These too are still lifes. Cézanne's landscapes were not painted in the open air, as were those of the Impressionists, nor were they captured first with a camera. He composed the pictures the way he wanted them -- arranging the trees and the houses, probably gleaned from his sketchbooks, on the canvas in the configurations he decided upon.

Cézanne understood that a painting could not really do its subject justice. He knew that colors in nature and their combination with natural light could never be truly reproduced. He saw himself as an interpreter who had to accept the limitations of the medium and tried to transfer the images onto canvas the best way he could. He attempted to bridge the natural and artistic worlds. Hence Cézanne's works, in comparison with the paintings of many other Impressionists, only make sense as a whole, not in snippets, as the brush strokes and colors are meant to be interdependent on one another.
Artchive - Paul Cezanne - Landscapes: Paul Cezanne - LANDSCAPES
WebMuseum: Cezanne, Paul: Portraits: Cezanne, Paul: Portraits
Even Cézanne's pictures of people can be regarded as still lifes, because he demanded that his models sit absolutely still. Sitting for him was something of a nightmare. Not only was he foul-tempered, he was an extremely slow painter, probably the reason his subjects always look tired and sombre. Ambroise Vollard, the dealer who arranged Cézanne's first one-man show a century ago, posed 115 times for a single painting, sitting absolutely still "like an apple" and then Cézanne, dissatisfied, abandoned the picture with only two unpainted spots remaining. He told Vollard that with luck he would find the correct color and could finish the painting. "The prospect of this made me tremble," noted Vollard in his biography of the painter. In the artist's eye, there was no difference between a human sitter and a bowl of fruit, except that the reflection value and the palette were different. In the end, both his subjects and his fruit wilted.
Artchive - Paul Cezanne - Portraits: Paul Cezanne - PORTRAITS
WebMuseum: Cezanne, Paul: Self-Portrait with Palette: Cezanne, PaulSelf-Portrait with Palette
1885-87 (110 Kb); Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in;
Collection the Artist's Family, Paris
It is one of the most impersonal self-portraits we know--and not simply because the face and especially the eyes are unfinished. The painter stands behind his easel and palette, assimilated to their lines even in small details.
WebMuseum: Cezanne, Paul: Self-Portraits: Cezanne, Paul: Various Self-Portraits
WebMuseum: Cezanne, Paul: Self-Portrait: Cezanne, PaulSelf-Portrait
1879-82 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 20 5/8"; Tate Gallery, London
We have from Cézanne's hand over thirty self-portraits. They are not only documents of his appearance over the four decades of his career as a painter; they also indicate a continued self-concern surprising in an artist of classic tendency. In several of them, this selfawareness struggles with his pictorial impulse or habit, and we sometimes find together in the same portrait acutely observed physiognomic features and some geometric detail that gives an abstract inhuman air to the part.
WebMuseum: Cezanne, Paul: Bathers: Cezanne, Paul: Bathers
Bathers were another of Cézanne's themes. Women bathers are usually presented in large pyramidal groups, overlapping, mostly with their backs to the viewer. His men generally face forward, almost in a frieze. They are individuals in the same scenery, neither interacting nor overlapping. There is no eye contact between any of them. Cézanne's only real passion was his art, but that passion was never revealed on the canvas itself.
Artchive - Paul Cezanne - Bathers: Paul Cezanne - BATHERS
Artilim - Paul Cézanne Paintings: List of paintings by Paul Cézanne

Museums and Art Galleries - Paintings by Paul Cezanne

These sites provide links to the collections of Cezanne paintings and major exhibitions Cezanne's artwork in various museums around the world

ARTCYCLOPEDIA: Paul Cezanne Online: Paul Cezanne [French Post-Impressionist Painter, 1839-1906] Guide to pictures of works by Paul Cezanne in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
Art Institute of Chicago : Search Results for Paul Cézanne: 9 artworks, 22 resources
Musée d'Orsay: Collections catalogue - Paul Cezanne search results: paintings by Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne: Bathers | Work of Art | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Bathers
Paul Cézanne: Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses | Work of Art | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley | Work of Art | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
MFA Boston: Collections Search Results - Paul Cezanne: Paintings by Paul Cezanne
MoMA.org | The Collection | Paul Cézanne. (French, 1839-1906): Paul Cézanne. (French, 1839-1906)
Paul Cézanne: The Card Players | Work of Art | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Card Players
National Gallery of Art, Washington - works by Paul Cézanne: Artist Paul Cézanne
French, 1839 - 1906
Neue Pinakothek [Sammlung - Kunstler]: The Neue Pinakothek offers an overview of European art from classicism to art nouveau. Its founder was King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who opened the museum in 1853 and had it built to house his privately financed collection of works by contemporary artists.

Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906)
Although his work was misunderstood by the general public, he was greatly appreciated by the forward-looking Impressionists for his unadulterated color-emphasis, which in turn paved the way for French Cubism.
Paul Cézanne | artist | 1839 - 1906 | The National Gallery, London: Explore information about the artist: Paul Cézanne. See list of paintings at the National Gallery, London.
Tate Britain - Cezanne Paintings: Paintings by Cézanne
29 September - 27 October 1954
Tate Britain - Paul Cézanne 1839-1906: paintings by Paul Cezanne

Exhibitions of Paul Cézanne's artwork

This is a record of major exhibitions of Cezanne's paintings

Cézanne et autres peintres - » Le Ferrage des centaures: Paul Cézanne, l'école spéciale de dessin d'Aix-en-Provence au temps de Cézanne
NG London/Past Exhibitions: Cézanne in Britain: The National Gallery marks the centenary of Cezanne's death with 'Cezanne in Britain', a retrospective focusing entirely on his works held in British collections.
Tate - Paul Cezanne Exhibition of Watercolours 1946: Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours
11 April - 12 May 1946
Cézanne in Florence : Art exhibition in Tuscany: Cézanne in Florence: art exhibition in Tuscany - list of the works
The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions: Exhibitions Archive: Paul Cezanne and the Russian Avant-Garde
8 August - 24 September 1998

The dialogue between the works of French painter Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) and those of Russian avant-garde artists between 1907 and 1930 is the subject of this exhibition. It includes some 100 paintings and watercolours from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and major museums abroad.
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2005 | Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865–1885: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro
Visit the online exhibition
Cezanne in the Studio (Getty Exhibitions) 2005: This Getty exhibition highlights the intersection between the genre of still life and the medium of watercolor in the oeuvre of Paul Cezanne.
NGA - Cezanne in Provence: Introduction: Cezanne in Provence
NGA - Cézanne in Provence: Image List: Cézanne in Provence
National Gallery of Art - Cézanne in Provence (2006): National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Cézanne in Provence
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Cézanne in Provence: Cézanne in Provence is the principal international exhibition marking 2006 as the centenary of the death of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). A key figure in the impressionist and post impressionist movements, he is often seen as the father of modern art. This exhibition, by focusing on the works Cézanne painted in and around his native Aix-en-Provence, celebrates the landscape and the rich associations it had for him.

Approximately 117 of Cézanne's greatest oil paintings and watercolors will demonstrate his intense emotional engagement with the countryside of his birthplace

Links to other resources
National Gallery - Cezanne in Provence - Exhibition Brochure (pdf file): exhibition brochure
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde: Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
Cézanne in Florence : Art exhibition in Tuscany 2007: Cézanne in Florence: art exhibition in Tuscany
Cézanne Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th Anniversary | Art Knowledge News: Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain. As the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th anniversary, the Gallery is showing the entire collection together for the first time.
Courtauld Gallery Exhibitions : The Courtauld Cezannes: The Courtauld CÉzannes 26 June - 5 October 2008
.. a condensed miracle of masterpieces ... (Financial Times, 28/29 June 2008)
... a landmark in the study of this great artist's work ... (The Daily Telegraph, 1 July 2008)
A feast. (The Daily Mail, 4 July 2008)
Telegraph | Picture Gallery | THE COURTAULD CéZANNES: To mark the Courtauld Gallery's 75th anniversary their entire collection of Cézannes - the largest in the UK - is to go on display.
Tate Britain - Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours 11 April - 12 May 1946: Paul Cézanne: an Exhibition of Watercolours
11 April - 12 May 1946
Cézanne's watercolours are studies preparatory to painting in oil, notes of strong sensations before nature afterwards to be rendered in the more permanent and solid seeming medium. They are also solutions of those problems of picture making which were his lifelong obsession, and which, at a certain period of his life, could be more easily settled in watercolour than in oil.
Tate Britain - Paintings by Cézanne 29 September - 27 October 1954: Paintings by Cézanne 29 September - 27 October 1954

Stability is the essence of Cézanne's conception of the picture. The idea of pictorial unity implicit in Impressionism provided him with a starting point from which he proceeded to meditations on the squareness and flatness of a canvas, meditations that rapidly led him to a form remote from any Impressionist.

Lawrence Gowing

BOOKS: Cezanne's Art

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BOOKS: Cezanne's Sketchbooks

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CEZANNE IN PROVENCE

BOOKS: Cezanne in Provence

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Provence was a very important place to Cezanne. It was his home, where he lived for nearly the last 20 years of his life, and where he painted some of his most famous landscapes

Cezanne and friends

NGA - Cézanne in Provence: Glossary: Cézanne in Provence - glossary of people in Cezanne's life

Information about Aix en Provence and Cezanne

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On the occasion of the centenary of the death of Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906), 2006 was dedicated to the most famous artist of Aix-en-Provence.The city of Aix-en- Provence and Aix Regional Community organized a series of highlights. Around the international "Cézanne in Provence" exhibition, a multitude of events painted the city in the painter's colours and commemorated his intimate relationship with the landscapes and light of Provence

Aix en Provence - Tourist Office - Guided Tours to The Cézanne sites: Informations The Cézanne sites
* The studio at Les Lauves
* The Bibémus Quarries
* The Manor of Jas de Bouffan
Aix en Provence - Tourist Office - Provence - France: Informations for your next stay in Aix en Provence : tourism, city map, gastronomy and shopping, provence, hotel, culture and history, city tours, excursions.

Articles about Cezanne

The Observer, Sunday 12 April 2009 - Rail threat to Cézanne's landscape: The vines and olive trees of Mont Sainte-Victoire made famous by the artist could be grubbed up to make way for a new TGV line

VIDEOS: Cezanne on You Tube

BOOK: Letters on Cézanne

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life.

Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.

Letters on Cézanne

by: Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of New Poems as well as the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Among his other books of poems are The Book of Images and The Book of Hours. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

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Millionairemomma May 21, 2012 @ 11:35 am | delete

I've seen his work in museums which are spectacular. Wonderful lens. I will now go and check out your blog!

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gypsyman27 Jan 19, 2011 @ 4:58 pm | delete

You have done a wonderful job with this lens concerning Cezanne's life and works. See you around the galaxy...

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WindyWinters Jan 19, 2011 @ 4:18 pm | delete

Remarkable Lens!! I know the name Cezanne but little about his art and life's work. I will favor and return to learn more about this interesting artist. Thanks for sharing!

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poutine Jan 19, 2011 @ 2:33 pm | delete

What a superbly done lens!

I enjoyed reading more about Cezanne in a easy style.

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ChrisDay Jan 19, 2011 @ 1:53 pm | delete

Lensroilled to my 'Inspiration for Artists' lens

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ChrisDay Jan 13, 2011 @ 1:29 am | delete

A really valuable resource. Thanks

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makingamark Jul 13, 2010 @ 12:44 pm | delete

To the person who asked me to add a link into an art website. I only add links to sites which have identifiable owners. This one did not.

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Rene Ghirardi Mar 1, 2010 @ 11:47 am | delete

Several years ago I bought a CD-ROM from Corbis entitled, PAUL CEZANNE: Portrait of my world. Unfortunately, I checked the Corbis website and didn't see this particular CD listed. (However, there are other fine art listings but I don't know if they are available in CD form either.)
The CD-ROM is well worth the effort to locate a copy...many, many paintings, bio, etc.

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makingamark Nov 2, 2009 @ 7:55 am | delete

Thanks Aimee - you may well find videos by me of Cezanne's work when you come back!

I start these lenses to learn about an artist - so they tend to start impersonal and become more personal as I get to know the artist better and find out more about them. One of the things that i do like about Cezanne is the way he 'hatched' with a brush - I hatch all the times with my pencil and I keep looking out for people who also work with a brush in the same way.

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Nov 2, 2009 @ 7:22 am | delete

Hi!
I saw Cezanne's paintings at the MoMa a week ago. Very beautiful - they were actually a high-light of the vist to NYC for me. Something about his rhytm or pulse (always awkward to find the right words for such an impression) in the paintings that went straight to my heart.

There is too much here for one time - thank you for collecting these links. I'll be back :)

One little suggestion/question: I would really be curious to read why you are drawn to Cezanne? What made you put all the work in to create this lens? It is in itself a pretty 'impersonal' lens, but the dedication it shows suggests something more personal..?

Aimee