Paul Cezanne Research Paper

The Legendary artists – Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso

Introduction

Paul Cézanne was the most influential French artist of the Post-Impressionist era, who was recognized widely for his outstanding works and his insistence that a painting should stay in touch with its material, if not virtually sculptural origin. He was called as the “Famous Master of Aix" after his ancestral home in the South of France. His work constitutes the most powerful and significant link between the ephemeral aspect of Impressionism and the artistic movements. He bridged the transition of art in the late 19th century and twentieth century. Cézanne consequently came to regard color, line, and "form" as constituting one and the same thing, or inseparable features

Cézanne's firm determination and constant insistence on redoing nature in accordance to a system of basic forms was important to boost up Picasso's own interest at that period of time. Through Cézanne's work Picasso found a method of how to distill the basic essential from nature in order to achieve a completely cohesive surface that portrayed the artist's singular vision. Paul Cézanne was a constant touchstone for the Pablo Picasso and other artists during the period of collaboration, which ultimately resulted in the invention of Cubism by 1909. His greatest works included Mont Sainte-Victoire and House of the Hanged Man, which showed some acute resemblance to the style of Renoir, Pissarro and

Picasso's early stages of Cubist paintings, include "Three Women" (1907), "Bread and Fruit Dish on a Table" (1909) and "Girl with Mandolin" (1910). His works between the period of 1918 and 1927 are categorized as part of his "Classical Period," a brief comeback to Realism. His encounter with Surrealism in the mid 1920s again prompted a sudden change of direction in his artistic style. His work became more expressive in their