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Cézanne

[ si-zan; French sey-zan ]

noun

  1. Paul [pawl], 1839–1906, French painter.


Cézanne

/ sezan /

noun

  1. CézannePaul18391906MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Paul (pɔl). 1839–1906, French postimpressionist painter, who was a major influence on modern art, esp cubism, in stressing the structural elements latent in nature, such as the sphere and the cone


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We know that she was 19 and working as either a model or a bookbinder when, in 1869, she met Cézanne in Paris.

Madame Cézanne is ultimately about the figure in the portraits rather than the person, who remains a tantalizing enigma.

Soon enough, Iolas had saved enough money to purchase his first work of art—a small drawing by Cézanne, whom he would later meet.

Cézanne's canvases put flesh on the otherwise abstract notion of a pure visual intelligence.

His nature series, all painted after 2006, embrace a more muted color palette, that of old masters like Cézanne and Monet.

Both Whitman and Cézanne stand together in the name of one common purpose, freedom from characteristics not one's own.

I have felt the same gift for life in a still-life or a landscape of Cézanne's that I have felt in any of Whitman's best pieces.

Such valuable ideas as Cézanne contributes must be accepted almost as dogma, albeit valuable dogma.

It was the acutely sensitive eye of Cézanne that taught him to register so ably the minor and major variations of his theme.

With the arrival of Cézanne into the field of water-color painting, this medium suffers a new and drastic instance for comparison.

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