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Paul Cezanne
French · 1839–1906
Post-ImpressionismImpressionism
Cézanne revolutionized figurative art by constructing the human form through geometric shapes and modulated color rather than traditional modeling. His portraits and bathers demonstrate an analytical approach to light and volume, treating flesh as composed of colored planes that build three-dimensional form. He bridged Impressionism and modernism, influencing Cubism through his insistence that nature be rendered as cylinders, spheres, and cones.
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Structural innovatorColor theoristAnalytical visionFormal rigor
