Tous les admirateurs de Paul Cezanne le savent bien, c'est ici que l'on ressent avec le plus d'intensite la presence du peintre. Cezanne a realise la son abri, lieu de recueillement et de travail, d'ou par beau temps, il partait peindre sur le motif. Les jours de pluie ou de grand froid, il restait la au milieu de ces objets familiers qui sont devenus les modeles de ses natures mortes : quelques ...

Cezanne, Paul (b. Jan. 19, 1839, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.--d. Oct. 22, 1906, Aix-en-Provence) French painter, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism. Cezanne's art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his life, grew out of Impressionism ...

Home museum biography exhibitions shop e-cards May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth ...