From the beginning, Cézanne was drawn to the more radical elements of the Parisian art world. He really admired the romantic painter Eugène Delacroix and, among the younger masters, Gustave Courbet and the notorious Édouard Manet, who exhibited realist paintings that shocked people both because of their style and subject matter.

Cézanne painted many of his earlier works in dark tones and applied heavy, fluid pigment that was influenced by the romantic expressionism of previous generations. He also began to develop a commitment to representing modern life, and painted the world the way he saw it without worrying about reaching an ideal theme or stylistic effect. One of

For a long time, Cézanne was mostly known only to his old Parisian colleagues and to a few younger artists, including Vincent van Gogh and the French painter Paul Gauguin. In 1895, however, a Paris art dealer arranged a show of Cézanne's works and promoted them successfully over a few years. By 1904, Cézanne was featured in a major official exhibition, and by the time of his death in Aix-en-Provence in 1906, he had attained the status of a legendary figure. Cézanne’s art began to be shown and seen across Europe, and it became a fundamental influence on the cubists, and virtually all advanced art of the early 20th century. Picasso called him “my one and only master.”

Cézanne continued to paint studies from nature in his isolation, using brilliant impressionist colors. He began to simplify his application of paint though, to the point where he appeared to render both nature’s light and its form with a single application of color. His paintings had a formal structure that the impressionists didn’t use, but there was still an element of brilliant illumination.

his most significant influences was Camille Pissarro, an older but as yet unrecognized painter who lived with his large family in a rural area outside Paris. Pissarro not only morally encouraged Cézanne, but also introduced him to

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