Paul+Cezanne

=Paul Cezanne=

Paul Cezanne was a famous French post-impressionist artist. He is known as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Cezanne was born on January 19, 1839 in the French town of Saint-Sauveur to Anne Elisabeth Honorine Aubert. From his mother, Cezanne learned to viewed life as romantic and colorful, but also he learned to have a quick sense of judgment like his mother. At the age of thirteen in 1852, Cezanne joined College Bourbon and stayed there for six years. In 1859, he entered a drawing school and started studying under Joseph Gibert. It was here that Cezanne formed many important friendships with a famous impressionist's. Later in his life when painting became his main focus, Cezanne’s work was featured in various locations around Paris including the official Paris Salon. Cezanne’s most well known painting is called ‘The Bathers’. The painting was started in 1898 and finished in 1905. In 1906, the painting was first put up in a museum. Currently, t-he piece now hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. ‘The Bathers’ was a long work in progress taking seven years in total to complete. When Cezanne died in 1906 the painting was left “unfinished”, but had enough detail to where the picture could be quickly identified and the painting itself was still a beautiful work of art. Cezanne’s work was different from most artists of his time. Most of Cezanne’s work was outlined in black to make the figures or the subjects of his art more defined. He wanted to show people that artwork could be defined and still be considered a beautiful piece of art. The Bathers was a rather large painting compared to other works by Cezanne. It is still occasionally referred to as ‘Big Bathers’ or ‘Large Bathers’ because of its size.The painting has had two owners throughout the years. The first owner was Leo Stein, a famous art collector and critic. In 1937, it was bought by its current owners, The Philadelphia Art Museum for $110,000. Paul Cezanne made a huge impact in the art world. The fact that Cezanne’s very successful career took off in Paris makes him and his work that much more important to our studies on this trip.To see a few pieces of Cezanne’s artwork would be a very cool life experience and I would love to experience. I think Cezanne is important to this trip because he and his career originated in a place that we will all be going and in my opinion we will be experiencing the same things that inspired him to paint his beautiful pieces of art.