Artist field note

Paul Cezanne

The painter who quietly broke reality apart.

Pyramid of Skulls by Paul Cezanne
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Pyramid of Skulls

c. 1901

Mortality is reduced to weight, plane and form without losing its unease.

The five in one idea

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