Paul Cezanne

His pursuit and expression of the sense of volume of objects opened the way for "cubism"; Cézanne attached great importance to the authenticity of color vision, and his uniqueness of "objective" observation of natural colors is greatly different from the previous "rationally" or "subjectively" painters who observe natural colors.

Cézanne was introduced to the Impressionists by Camille Pissarro and participated in the first Impressionists Exhibition. Some people in his style also belong to post-Impressionism.

"Colors are rich to a certain extent, and form is formed." Cezanne often repeated this sentence when he talked about his paintings. In the group of Impressionist innovators, he carried out a personal artistic revolution. If Impressionists such as Renoir, Degas or Monet fixed the temporary and momentary impression of moving things on canvas, Cezanne was exploring the expression of nature in an eternal and unchanging form. If the Impressionists' work blurred the contours, Cezanne restored or re-established them. He paid great attention to the firmness of the image and the depth of the picture. For this reason, he completely abandoned the linear perspective method introduced by Brunelleschi into the field of painting, and the sense of volume of objects regained its dominance in painting. This sense of volume is not expressed by lines, but by the author's free combination of color blocks. For this reason, Cezanne is called the "Solid School of Impressionism".

Obviously, Cezanne's favorite subject was still life, but he also painted figures. The figures in his pictures were treated in front of still life, and the bodies of the figures were often treated as generalized, mechanical, and monumental images rich in geometric concepts. And his still life paintings are often expressed in "cylindrical, spherical, and angular" ways.

If the evaluation of Cézanne's art inevitably arouses sarcasm from the public and critics, it should be admitted that Cézanne is the true "father of modern art, first of all Fauvism, and then the father of cubism."¡»

He believes that most of his works are the embodiment of his own artistic ideas, expressing a solid geometric sense, ignoring the accuracy of the texture and shape of the object, emphasizing the sense of thick and calm volume and the overall relationship between the objects. He sometimes sacrifices individual independence and authenticity in order to seek harmony between various relationships.

Cezanne valued the formal beauty of painting, emphasizing the order of the composition of the visual elements of the picture. This pursuit has actually appeared in the Western classical art tradition for a long time. And Cezanne has always held a reverence for classical art. He most admired the French classicist painter Poussin. He once said: "My goal is to paint Poussin-style works with nature as the object." He tried to achieve the wonderful balance and perfection of his paintings in Poussin's works. He pursued this with such dedication that he disagreed with the traditional laws of representation. He went to extremes and broke away from the traditions of Western art. It is for this reason that he is regarded as "the father of modern painting".