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paul cézanne (1839-1906)

The artist Paul Cézanne was born in France in 1839. Many people consider him to be the father of modern art because his paintings were very different from anything that had been done before. He was called a Post-Impressionist painter, which was a later phase of the Impressionist art movement that took place in the 1880s and 1890s. Cézanne painted still life and landscape paintings. He paid close attention to 3-dimensional shapes such as cones, spheres, and cylinders. He was known for painting objects from different viewpoints or vantage points. He combined these different perspectives into one painting. Cézanne influenced and inspired many famous modern painters who worked later on, especially Pablo Picasso.