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Cezanne
(1839-1906), often called the father of modern
painting, was a renown French Postimpressionist
whose works and ideas were influential to 20th-century
art in general and the evolution of Cubism in
particular. Cezanne lived much of his life struggling
to gain acceptance and recognition for the Impressionist
style of painting. He, along with his colleagues
Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet,
Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas, broke tradition
with the Neoclassical and Romantic styles, which
at the time characterized 19th Century art. Cezanne
took the Impressionist movement a step further
by developing a style emphasizing the underlying
structure of shapes rather than the objective
vision presented by the light that emanated from
them. He composed cubic masses and architectonic
lines; his strokes, unlike those of the Impressionists,
were not strewn with color, but they complemented
each other in a chromatic unity.
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