Creator story
Surprising fact
Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire, the mountain near his home, more than 80 times, trying to grasp its underlying structure.
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Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was the father of modern art, who sought to build paintings from solid, geometric structure. His patient studies of apples, bathers and Mont Sainte-Victoire opened the road to Cubism.
Both Picasso and Matisse called Cézanne the father of us all; he turned painting toward abstraction.
- Sought to treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere and the cone, founding modern form.
- Painted the same mountain and the same apples over and over to grasp their structure.
- Bridged Impressionism and Cubism; Picasso and Matisse revered him as their father.
Key works
Two works that open the world of Paul Cézanne
These works make it easiest to see how the artist changed form, content, and the very way art could exist in culture.
1902
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Mont Sainte-Victoire condenses the core ideas of post-impressionism into a memorable painted image.
1893
The Card Players
The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place.