Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne Cezanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France on Jan. 19, 1839. He went to school in Aix, forming a close friendship with the novelist Emile Zola. He also studied law there from 1859 to 1861, but at the same time he continued attending drawing classes. Against his father's resistance, he made up his mind that he wanted to paint and in 1861 joined Zola in Paris. His father soon accepted the fact and gave Cezanne …

…tablecloths. The landscape paintings of his final years, much affected by Cezanne's contemporaneous practice in watercolor, have a more transparent and unfinished look, while the last figure paintings are more spiritual in how they look. By the time of his death on Oct. 22, 1906, Cezanne's art had begun to be shown and seen across Europe, and it became a basic influence on the Fauves, the cubists, and virtually all advanced art of the early 20th century