Paul Cézanne

Matisse's Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) or Picasso's Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon you can see how influential Paul Cézanne was in their work. The similarities between Cézanne's Large Bathers and those paintings is undeniable. However, both Picasso and Matisse had a unique style all their own showing that they were both inspired by Cézanne and also breaking free. Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso When Cézanne first appeared on the art scene at the end of the 19th century, the art world was ready for a change. Modern art was bringing new techniques and subject matter to art patrons and Cézanne was a connecting point between the Impressionists and the Cubists. Cézanne sought to show the world as it was and this meant that unlike the great masters before him, many of the rules of art would have to be bent. Unlike more realistic painting in the past, much of Cézanne's work was less detailed and appeared unfinished.…

Paul Cezanne was an amazing and influential painter to Matisse, Picasso, and many other artists that would follow. Cezanne's work would nearly single-handedly help reign in the artistic era of Cubism, as both Picasso and Matisse became interested in and inspired by his painting The Bathers, which was exhibited in 1907 (The National Gallery, 2016). His work inspired Matisse so much that he would go on to say that Cezanne was, "...father of us all" (Harris & Zucker, n.d., p.1). Cezanne's is most…

Amongst the most significant artists in history, Paul Cézanne inspired generations of modern artists and became the first of his generation to successfully secede from the Impressionist style. By emphasising arrangements of colour, and perceiving paintings in extreme abstract and geometric senses, Cezanne established the bridge between Impressionism and art of the twentieth century’s new inquest, Cubism. Cezanne directly inspired Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in their Cubist experiments, the…

Turtles? In My Bath? It’s More Likely Than You’d Think. Sometimes live gives you lemons, and we all have varied responses to the newly discovered citrus, but other times life gives you turtles, which elicits a plethora of new and mysterious reactions. Bathers with a Turtle shows a scene of three lovely ladies bathing within a pool, but everything changed with the turtle appeared. Throwing a wringer into their plans, Henri Matisse captures a moment of pure shock, awe, and despair through his…

Art is an ongoing process of influences and inventions. Inventions that include many artistic techniques and expertise. The influence of Paul Cézanne on the history of art is very impactful and the ability for artists such as, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque to harness that influence and take it a step further by enhancing the foundations that were set by artists before them is magnificent. Due to the artistic influence of Paul Cézanne, artists such as, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were…

Paul Cezanne is a french artist as well as a post-impressionist painter born on January 19, 1839 and died on October 22, 1906. Unlike most artist Cezanne was very rich so it was easy for him to get his painting out due to the fact that he had all of the materials her had. He is considered by many as the inventor of modern expressionism. Cezanne became well-known and was adored by the new generation of painters. This period was also beset by troubling events. Cezanne’s death was caused due to…

Art Analysis Still Life with Skull by Paul Cezanne Paul Cezanne’s Still Life with a Skull is a piece of work that features a skull, fruits, and a piece of white cloth placed on a table and features a dark background. The artists seems to have created depth of perspective and space using planes of color through contrast. The work represents an essential and powerful link between the materialistic artistic movement of expressionism and the ephemeral features of Impressionism. It was done in the…

Although plates 1.3.20 and 1.3.22 by Paul Cézanne have the same subject matter, the composition of the paintings has turned out completely different. One similarity is the way they are painted. Cézanne was described as the “founding father of modern art” (Jones, 2014) and these plates are clear examples of this. In 1.3.20 he used short brushstrokes to build up the scene. It has been described as a “rich mosaic of coloured strands” (Keller, 1980, p246). This compares to the cool toned…

Paul Cezanne was a talented artist that both Matisse and Picasso have said; they owe Paul Cezanne much respect and gratitude for getting them to the levels that they achieved. In this short paper we will look at what was important to Paul Cezanne and how he constructed his works of art, and then compare this to works of art by Matisse and Picasso. We will pull out examples of how Cezanne inspired these two artists and also how these two artists were trying to break free from Cezanne and become…

‘Ephemeral… fugitive… contingent’: these words written by Charles Baudelaire in 1863 express the very nature of metropolitan life in the late nineteenth century. Urban renewal across Europe had given way to a new, fast-paced way of life, and nowhere was this more evident than in Paris: the then cultural centre of the western world. Crowds of people would converge upon Haussmann’s wide boulevards, swiftly navigating through the city to see and be seen by their fellow Parisians. Painting en plein…