“Father of New Art” Cezanne
Paul Cezanne（1839-1906) was an important representative of post-Impressionist who was regarded as “father of new art” since the end of 19th century, and as a pioneer of modern art, western modern artists called him “father of modern art” or “father of modern painting”. We can see the improvement that Cezanne made to art innovation. Cezanne was born in a rich merchant and banker family in south France Alx. His father wanted him to learn law, but he insisted in learning drawing. He had not enrolled by Paris Art Constitution, which meant that he learned drawing by himself. At first, he got contact with some expressionists and also attend expressionism art exhibition, but due to his personal extensive drawing and solid three-dimensional contouring, he separated with other expressionism quickly. He got a lot of heritage after the death of his father. This enabled him to return to his hometown in south France to live in seclusion for a long time, and tried to find out one path of art that was quite different from the impressionist school. The difference between Cezanne and expressionists was that “What Magnet pursues is real effect and becomes the ’slaves’ of light. Besides light, Cezanne focuses more on the actual shapes of surface and object. What Monet pursues is the instantaneous impression and temporary vision, while Cezanne pursues the solid physique and eternal vision.” Therefore he didn’t pay much attention to the performance of light, and he thought that “as to drawing the light does not exist essentially.” Cezanne usually went out for painting the scenery sketch in cloudy days, and spent most of his time at home drawing the still objects. His pursuit and performance to the feeling of volume, which had opened a lot of train of thought for “the cubism”. His unique subjective sense was greatly different from most painters who emphasized on objective sense. In more than half of Cezanne’s life, his paintings were demoted or disavowed by other people, but his couldn’t waver his rigid pursue of artistic style. His strong structure in still life, portrait, and scenery has attracted the younger generation. In 1895, painting merchant Vola held a great exhibition for him which received general reception. In 1904, he won the decisive victory in the autumn Sharon, and his fame as “father of the modern art” has established initially. But two years later, he left the world unfortunately.
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