Artist field note

Paul Cezanne

The painter who quietly broke reality apart.

Still Life with Apples by Paul Cezanne
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domainSource ↗

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Still Life with Apples

c. 1893-1894

The table tilts and viewpoints shift. Fruit becomes a quiet revolution in how space can be organized.

The five in one idea

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