Paul Cezanne Research Paper

Paul Cezanne was born on January 19th, 1839. He died in the city in which he was born, Aix, on October 22nd of 1906. Though he was born in the Aix province of France, his most popular success came in association with Paris, as was the case with most of the French artists at this time. Though Cezanne’s family, most prominently his father, was not particularly supportive of his career in the arts, he would not have achieved he success that he did without them. Such successes include prodigious affects on the future of arts. He is renowned for his unique, varied painting style; one that had profound affects on the twentieth century abstract art. Paul Cezanne was afforded a very wealthy background on which to build his artistic career. His father was the co-founder of a prosperous banking firm, which remained lucrative throughout the beginnings of Cezanne’s career and resulted in a rather sizable inheritance sum. Coasting on the substantial wealth of his father, Cezanne was able to begin studying drawing and painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts school of design in the year 1856.

Impressionism had lasted since 1872, in which it was spawned by Claude Monet’s painting Impression, Sunrise, but it had now run its course and there was a tangible, popular craving for change. Thus springs up Post-Impressionism, finding its early roots in none other than Paris, France. Post Impressionists believed that the impressionist s had lost sight of what was truly important in a piece of art, not the laborious preoccupations with technique and natural light, the subject matter. The title of Post-Impressionist is far from being narrow, however. Post-Impressionists were a widely varied, and oft conflicting, band of artists ranging from Vincent van Goh to Henri Rousseau to Paul