Impressionism art movement

Paul Cézanne, who exhibited paintings rarely and lived progressively more in creative isolation, is considered nowadays as one of the greatest pioneers of modern art and painting, equally for the method that he evolved of putting down on canvas exactly what his eye saw in nature and for the qualities of form that he accomplished all the way through a unique dealing with space and color.

He lived at the same tame with the impressionists, but went further than their goal of the personality brushstroke and the drop of light onto things, to build, as he say: "something more concrete and solid, similar to the art of the museums.''

Cézanne was born in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence, January 19, , the son of a wealthy banker.

His boyhood companion was Emile Zola, who later gained fame as a novelist and man of letters . As did Zola, Cézanne developed artistic interests at an early age, much to the dismay of his father. In , after a number of