Boy In The Red Vest By Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne most famous paintings

Paul Cezanne is the 19th century French painter who most clearly announced the radical changes the 20th century art would bring. He carried forward the Impressionist artistic thinking. Critics placed him in the Post-Impressionist artistic movement and described the artist as one important predecessor of Cubism. Many consider Cezanne as the father of Expressionism

1. The Large Bathers

Cezanne’s finest work of art, this painting is part of the “Bathers” series. It is also the largest painting of this theme. ‘Bathers’ series was a notorious public and critic success at the time.

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2. The Boy in the Red Vest

This is a definitive example of Cezanne’s art of portrait. The picture depicts an Italia boy wearing traditional clothes. It was stolen in 2008 but

The Card Players

There are five paintings in a series Cezanne painted during his last years. Each one shows Provençal peasants playing cards. Specialists agree that these paintings prepare the grounds for artist’s full maturity works.

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4. Still Life with a Curtain

This painting is a great example of Cezanne’s artistic pursuit for his own style. It shows the first signs of artist’s own interpretation of form and geometric figures.

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5. Pyramid of Skulls

It is a unique work amid the Cezanne’s paintings because, as critics observed, the painter places the objects depicted very close to the viewer. It is an artistic, philosophic meditation on mortality.

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6. Mont Sainte-Victoire

Landscapes are subjects of many of Cezanne’s pictures. Especially the Saint-Victoire mountain, in southern France, became a beautiful motif, as the artist named it, of an entire series.

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7. Girl at the Piano

Cezanne portrayed his sister and mother in family’s villa, in Aix-en-Provence. This painting combines two main themes of the artist’s early work: family and society.

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8. The Basket of