Who is Paul Cezanne

Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, also UK: sə-ZAN, US: say-ZAHN; French: [pɔl sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 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. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. While his early works are still influenced by Romanticism - such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house - and Realism, he arrived at a new pictorial language through intensive examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He gave up the use of perspective and broke with the established rules o...
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The_art_guide: paul cézanne 'still life, sugar bowl, pears and blue cup' 1865 - 1870
Welfordwrites: the old man and the mountain: a story inspired by the life of paul cezanne.
Twitbotfl: "the awareness of our own strength makes us modest." - paul cezanne
Balqees11__: paul cezanne - a painter at work - 1875
Melaniejaxn: when i judge art, i take my painting and put it next to a god made object like a tree or flower. if it clashes, it is not art. – paul cezanne
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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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