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Paul Cézanne was brought into the fold of the Impressionists by
Camille Pissarro, who had a clear influence on the younger
artist’s approach to painting. The two artists enjoyed painting
excursions to the countryside where they would work side by
side.
Studying perspective and its play on the
perception of shapes had long been an interest of Cézanne. As
his style evolved, Cézanne began experimenting with simplified
forms. His principle to “treat nature in terms of the cylinder,
the sphere, and the cone” created a bridge between Impressionism
and the Cubism movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges
Braque in the following decades.
I want to make of impressionism something solid and lasting like the art in the museums.
Born in Aix-en-Provence, the son of a wealthy banker.
Studies law in Aix-en-Provence.
Moves to Paris to become an artist; meets Pissarro.
His paintings are shown in the first exhibition of the Salon des Refusés.
Participates at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.
His first solo exhibition in Paris establishes his reputation and financial success.
Dies in Aix-en-Provence at age 67.
1. Self-Portrait in a Casquette (detail), about 1872, oil on canvas. The State Hermitage Museum, ГЭ-6512.
2. The Basket of Apples, about 1893, oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.252.
3. The Large Bathers, 1898–1906, oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the W.P. Wilstach Fund, 1937, W1937-1-1.
4. Boy in a Red Waistcoat, 1888–1890, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1995.47.5.