Paul Cézanne was born in Aix, Provence, on January 19, 1839, he was a French post-impressionist painter, considered the father of modern painting and whose works laid the foundations for the transition between the nineteenth century artistic conception towards the artistic world of the twentieth century, new and different.

However, while he lived, Cézanne was an ignored painter who worked in great isolation.

He mistrusted critics, had few friends, and until 1895 he exhibited only occasionally. He was a "painter of painters", ignored by critics and the public, being appreciated only by some impressionists and at the end of his life by the new generation.

Cézanne attempted to achieve an ideal synthesis of naturalistic representation, personal expression, and pictorial order.

Like Zola with literary realism, Cézanne manifested a progressive interest in the representation of contemporary life, painting the world as it appeared before his eyes, without worrying about thematic idealizations or affectation in style.

He struggled to develop an authentic observation of the visible world through the most accurate method of depicting it in paint that he could find.

To this end, he structurally ordered everything he saw in simple shapes and planes of color. His statement "I want to make impressionism something solid and lasting like the art of museums", underscores his desire to unite the observation of nature with the permanence of classical composition.

This is also evidenced by his claim to "revive Poussin from nature" (Vivifier Poussin sur nature). https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monta%C3%B1a_Sainte-Victoire_(C%C3%A9zanne)

His brushstrokes, often repetitive, sensitive and exploratory, are very characteristic and easily recognizable. These small brushstrokes and planes of color combined to form complex fields, expressing at the same time the sensations of the observing eye and an abstraction of the observed nature.

Cézanne strove to understand and reflect the complexity of human visual perception.

He wanted to offer an authentic vision of reality, and for this he observes objects from different points of view, which leads him to represent them from different perspectives simultaneously.

Cézanne's mature work shows the development of a solid, almost architectural style of painting.

The intensity of his colors, together with the apparent rigor of the compositional structure, indicate that, despite the frequent despair of the artist himself, he had synthesized the basic elements of representation and expressiveness of painting in a very personal way.

He was interested in simplifying naturally occurring shapes to their geometric essence:

Everything in nature is modeled after the sphere, the cone, the cylinder. You have to learn to paint on the basis of these simple figures; then you can do whatever you want. Cézanne, 1904.

For example, a tree trunk can be thought of as a cylinder, a human head as a sphere.

Furthermore, the concentrated attention with which he had recorded his observations of nature resulted in a deep exploration of binocular vision, which results from two simultaneous and slightly different visual perceptions, and provides us with depth perception and complex knowledge of spatial relationships.

Cézanne used this aspect of visual perception in his painting to different degrees.

The observation of this fact, coupled with Cézanne's desire to capture the truth of his own perception, often led him to present the shapes outlines while simultaneously attempting to show the distinctively different points of view of both the left eye and the eye. right.

Cézanne can be said to bridge the gap between 19th century impressionism and the new style of the early 20th century, Cubism.

For many years, Cézanne's work was known only to his former Impressionist colleagues and to a few radical young artists of the Post-Impressionism line, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.

This later generation embraced practically all of Cézanne's oddities.

Cézanne's 1907 retrospective at the Salon d'Automne greatly impacted the direction the Parisian avant-garde took, lending credence to his position as one of the most influential artists of the 19th century and the advent of Cubism.

It was Cézanne's explorations of geometric simplification and optical phenomena that inspired Picasso, Braque, Gris, and others to experiment with multiple yet more complex visions of the same subject, and, over time, the fracture of form.

There is a phrase, attributed to both Matisse and Picasso, according to which"Cézanne is the father of us all."

Matisse admired his use of color and Picasso developed the structure of the flat composition of Cézanne to create the cubist style.

One of the paintings in her series The Card Players became the most publicly sold work of art in 2012, when the Quatari royal family bought it for more than 250 million dollars.

You may already realize that I am a lover of painting, I love Cézanne's style, especially because it is different, not shadows, not smooth, not extremely realistic, if not, rather rare, with noticeable brushstrokes and marked depth, its shape Geometric way of showing things, the way he can create gorgeous things from shapes like triangles and spheres makes him one of my favorite painters