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Paul Cezanne (French Paul Cezanne) (1839-1906) - French painter, a prominent representative of post-impressionism, one of the outstanding artists who determined the development of fine art of the 20th century. He studied in Aix-en-Provence at the Municipal School of Drawing (1858-1860), and attended the Suisse Academy in Paris.

Biography

Paul Cezanne was born in France on January 19, 1839 in the city of Aix-en-Provence in the family of a wealthy bourgeois. At Bourbon College, where he studied, Paul became friends with the future famous writer Emile Zola. Paul studied law at the University of Aix, but did not complete the course, deciding to devote himself entirely to painting. Cezanne's father was not happy with his son's choice, however, he reconciled with him and left Paul a significant annuity, which allowed him to lead a completely comfortable life.

After a short study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Aix-en-Provence, Cézanne went to Paris, where he met Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. Together with them, he participated in the first exhibition of the Impressionists in 1874 at the Nadar photographic studio in Paris. However, the cold reaction of the public towards Cézanne's works at this and the subsequent Impressionist exhibition in 1877 forced him to break with this group of artists. Cezanne's hopes of exhibiting his works at the famous Paris Salon did not materialize; all his attempts were rejected. After leaving Paris, Cézanne moved to Provence.

Camille Pizarro had a great influence on Cezanne's work. They worked together in 1872-1873. Pizarro's great pedagogical gift helped Cézanne in his search for his own unique style of painting.

In 1886, after the death of his father, Cezanne moved to Aix-en-Provence, which he almost never left.

Recognition came to Cezanne around 1900. His paintings were presented at the World Exhibition in Paris. He was especially popular with the younger generation of artists.

Paul Cezanne died on October 22, 1906 in Aix-en-Provence, after a long illness associated with a cold while working on another painting.

Works

Cezanne's artistic heritage amounts to more than 800 oil works, not counting watercolors and other works. No one can count the number of works destroyed as imperfect by the artist himself over the years of his long creative journey. At the Paris Autumn Salon of 1904, an entire hall was dedicated to the display of Cézanne's paintings. This exhibition became the first real success, moreover, a triumph for the artist.

Individuality

Cezanne's works bear the imprint of the artist's inner life. They are filled with internal energy of attraction and repulsion. Contradictions were initially inherent in both the artist’s mental world and his artistic aspirations. In Cezanne's everyday life, the southern temperament was combined with seclusion and asceticism, piety - with attempts to free himself from religious traditions that constrained his temperament. Confident in his genius, Cézanne was nevertheless eternally obsessed with the fear that he would not find the exact means of expressing what he saw and wanted to express in a painting through the means of painting. He always talked about his inability to “realize” his own vision, he always doubted that he could do it, and each new picture became both a refutation and confirmation of this.

Cezanne obviously had many fears and phobias, and his unstable character found refuge and salvation in the work of a painter. Perhaps it was precisely this circumstance that served as the main reason for Cezanne’s fanatical work on his paintings. Suspicious and unsociable, Cezanne became a whole and strong person in his work. Creativity healed him from his own unresolved spiritual contradictions the more intensely and permanently it was.

In his mature years, the feeling of one’s own psychological contradictions and the inconsistency of the surrounding world was gradually replaced in Cezanne’s work by a feeling not so much of inconsistency as of the mysterious complexity of the world. Contradictions receded into the background, and an understanding of the brevity of the language of existence itself came to the fore. But if this language is laconic, there is a chance to express it in a certain number of basic signs or forms. It was at this stage that Cézanne's best, most profound and meaningful works emerged.