During his final years between 1878-1905 they were spent in Provence. It was in Provence that he gradually developed the style of his paintings and progressed beyond a typical impressionist style. He used large pops of colour to give a more abstracted reflection of nature. Cezanne's paintings from the last thirty years of his life recognized new ways of thinking for the development of modern art. Cezanne worked slowly but eventually would go on to impact nearly every drastic phase in the 20th century. Throughout Cezanne’s work he used short, hatched brushstrokes to help the surface in his work and he simultaneously accomplished flatness which tends to affect the understanding of space and volume by calling key attention to the art pieces flatness,
