Paul Cezanne

Paul Cézanne, a French painter, often called the father of modern art, was born on January 19, 1839, in Aix-en-Provence by, France. While in school, he enrolled in the free drawing academy in Aix, which he attended occasionally for several years. In 1858, he graduated from the College Bourbon. Cézanne entered the law school of the University of Aix in 1859. He divided his time between the Midi and Paris.
In the capital, he briefly attended the Atelier Suisse with Camille Pissarro, whose art later came to influence his own. Many of Cézanne's early works were painted in dark tones useful with heavy, fluid pigment. Pissarro not only provide...