Cézanne
Post-Impressionism, proto-Cubism
The father of modern art. Where the Impressionists dissolved form into light, Cézanne rebuilt it — 'treating nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.' His Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings pointed directly to Cubism.
Key works
- Mont Sainte-Victoire series1882–1906— Landscape as geometric structureVarious — Philadelphia Museum of Art
- The Card Players~1893— Monumental stillnessVarious — Musee d'Orsay, Paris