Paul Cézanne.

... Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne, who was the son of a wealthy banker, became a painter in the 1860s in Paris when he quit his studies of Law. By 1874 he was painting landscapes in the Impressionist manner and had some of his work included in their first exhibition held during that very same year. He painted in the Impressionistic manner, but sheared off in a different direction to the main body of Impressionist painters. The main body of Impressionist painters were concerned with the 'fleeting effects of light and colour', and in order to capture the surface impression of that moment 'they had to work fluently and quickly'. CÉzanne's analysis was far more prolonged and pains taking; he spent so long analysing his subjects that some of his work was never finished. He began to be more concerned with the use of colour in modelling objects and landscape and as a way of

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