Description
Among the Impressionists, the man with the most avant-garde “new way of seeing” was Paul Cézanne. A prickly personality, even his friends found him and his art, troublesome. The passionate and bedeviled Cézanne spent much of his career in self-imposed “exile” in his native Provence, away from Paris, the center of the Impressionist movement. This lecture will illustrate the life and art of Paul Cézanne from his early dark and emotional work to his mature landscapes, still lifes, portraits and genre scenes, moving ever closer towards abstraction, but an abstraction dependent on visual truth.