Cezanne

(noun)

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

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Examples of Cezanne in the following topics:

  • Cézanne

    • Cézanne was a French, Post-Impressionist painter whose work highlights the transition from the 19th century to the early 20th century.
    • The "Cézanne medal" is granted by the French city of Aix en Provence.
    • In 1866–67, inspired by the example of Courbet, Cézanne painted a series of paintings with a palette knife.
    • Cézanne moved between Paris and Provence, exhibiting in the first (1874) and third Impressionist shows (1877).
    • The "Cézanne medal" is granted by the French city of Aix en Provence.

  • Post-Impressionism

    • Paul Cézanne, who participated in the first and third Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasizing pictorial structure; he is most often called a post-Impressionist.
    • Paul Cézanne set out to restore a sense of order and structure to painting by reducing objects to their basic shapes while retaining the bright fresh colours of Impressionism.

  • Japanese Art in the Showa Period

    • Yasui Sōtarō was strongly influenced by the the realistic styles of the French artists Jean-François Millet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Paul Cézanne; he incorporated clear outlines and vibrant colors in his portraits and landscapes, combining western realism with the softer touches of traditional Nihonga techniques.
    • Yasui Sōtarō was strongly influenced by the the realistic styles of the French artists Jean-François Millet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and, in particular, Paul Cézanne.

  • Der Blaue Reiter

    • The five works by Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Gauguin were outnumbered by seven from Henri Rousseau and thirteen from child artists.

  • Fauvism

    • Other key influences were Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin, whose employment of areas of saturated color—notably in paintings from Tahiti—strongly influenced Derain's work.

  • Manuscript Printing

    • His very strong colors have little shading, and his lighting is "harsh, even merciless. " The landscape includes perhaps the first appearance in art of Mont Sainte-Victoire, later to be painted so often by Cézanne and others.

  • Neo-Expressionism

    • For Jean-François Lyotard, paintings by Valerio Adami, Daniel Buren, Marcel Duchamp, Bracha Ettinger, and Barnett Newman, after the avant-garde's time and the painting of Paul Cézanne and Wassily Kandinsky, were the vehicle for new ideas of the sublime in contemporary art.

  • German Expressionism

    • Modersohn-Becker studied briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was influenced by French post impressionists Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.

  • The Enlightenment

    • Poussin was the major inspiration for such classically oriented artists as Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Paul Cézanne.

  • Watercolor