Artist field note

Paul Cezanne

The painter who quietly broke reality apart.

Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cezanne
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domainSource ↗

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Mont Sainte-Victoire

various

The same mountain is rebuilt again and again from patches of colour. Seeing becomes construction.

The five in one idea

Cezanne showed the next generation that reality could be rebuilt rather than copied.