Paul cézanne early life

The Story of Cezanne

Paul Cezanne was born in 1839 in Aix-en Province, a city in the south of France surrounded by hills and the countryside. He lived through a time of extreme social and artistic change, and his art bridged this shift from tradition to modernity.

The way he challenged existing ideas of beauty, colour and how to paint went on to inspire a generation of younger artists.

The history of painting would never be the same again.

In 1861, 22 year old Cezanne quit law school and moved to Paris to study art. The capital was a world away from his hometown and in the middle of a turbulent transformation. There was rapidly growing industry and new social conventions for women, as well as widespread poverty, violence and discrimination.

Cezanne tried to capture it all. In Paris, he met other ambitious young artists who also wanted to reflect the world they lived in through their art. Among them were Claude Monet, Pierre-August Renoir and Camille Pissarro.

They made portraits, landscapes and scenes both real and imaginary that alluded to what was happening in France

His life

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Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, on January 19th, 1839. His father, a hatter who became a banker in 1848, did not marry with Anne-Elisabeth Aubert, mother of his son Paul, until 1844, when Paul was enrolled at the elementary school of Epineaux Street. From 1844 to 1858, Paul Cézanne was registered at Saint-Joseph’s Catholic school, then at the Bourbon school, present-day Mignet school, where he obtained a liberal arts diploma with the grade “average”, on November 12th, 1858. It is in the school’s playground in 1852 that Paul Cézanne met Émile Zola, with whom he frequently went for walks in the Aix countryside. From 1857 to 1862, Paul enrolled in the free municipal school of drawing where he won the second prize in drawing in 1859.
In 1858, Émile Zola left Aix for Paris and Cézanne planned to join him there. In April 1861, he finally convinced his father to let him devote his life to painting and joined Emile in Paris. Disappointed by this first visit, he returned to Aix in September and worked as an employe

Paul Cézanne

(1839-1906)

Who Was Paul Cézanne?

The work of Post-Impressionist French painter Paul Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic inquiry, Cubism. The mastery of design, tone, composition and color that spans his life's work is highly characteristic and now recognizable around the world. Both Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso were greatly influenced by Cézanne.

Early Life

Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839, in Aix-en-Provence (also known as Aix), France. His father, Philippe Auguste, was the co-founder of a banking firm that prospered throughout the artist's life, affording him financial security that was unavailable to most of his contemporaries and eventually resulting in a large inheritance. In 1852, Cézanne entered the Collège Bourbon, where he met and befriended Émile Zola. This friendship was decisive for both men: with youthful romanticism, they envisioned successful careers in Paris' booming art industry—Cézanne as a painter and Zola as a writer.

Consequently, Céza

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