Museum of fine arts budapest cezanne biography

          Cezanne's œuvre is one of the pillars of modern art.

        1. When the picture was painted in the mids Cézanne was friends with the most important Impressionist painters: Pissarro, Monet and Renoir.
        2. In our exhibition we wish to present an overview of Paul Cézanne's oeuvre and his approach to the past through some eighty to one hundred paintings, drawings.
        3. HISTORIES of modern painting conventionally start with Paul Cézanne (); and yet his relation with subsequent avant-garde artists is.
        4. On 17 February , the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest closed the doors on its exhibition entitled Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and.

          5. In our exhibition we wish to present an overview of Paul Cézanne's oeuvre and his approach to the past through some eighty to one hundred paintings, drawings....

          ‘Fresh approach’ to works of French master

          The curators say this is a new approach to looking at Cézanne, who was born in Aix-en-Provence on January 19, 1839, and died there on October 22, 1906.

          While “Cézanne and the Past: Tradition and Creativity” at the Museum of Fine Arts in 2012-2013 focused on the meeting points between the great predecessors (for example, Michelangelo, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Nicolas Poussin) and Cézanne’s works, the current exhibition examines the constructive artistic trends that emerged in the first half of the 20th century.

          Cézanne is considered to be one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century artists and art movements, especially Cubism.

          His art, misunderstood and discredited by the public during most of his life, grew out of Impressionism and eventually challenged all the conventional values of painting in the 19th century, due to his insistence o