Cezanne artist wikipedia english

He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields.

Paul cézanne family

His painting initially provoked incomprehension and ridicule in contemporary art criticism. His parents married on 29 January , after the birth of Paul, and his sister Marie in His youngest sister Rose was born in June His mother, Anne Elisabeth Honorine Aubert — , [ 12 ] was "vivacious and romantic, but quick to take offence". They debated art, read Homer and Virgil and practiced writing their own poems.

He spent two years with his unloved studies, but increasingly neglected them and preferred to devote himself to drawing exercises and writing poems. His teacher was the academic painter Joseph Gibert — In August he won second prize in the figure studies course there. His father bought the Jas de Bouffan House of the Wind estate that same year.