Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839 in Aix-en Provence, a provincial region of France.

Paul’s father was dealing with a fedora, and when he earned too much from this business, he founded the Cézanne and Cabassol Bank. Paul’s coming from a wealthy family led to a good development in his educational life. He entered Collage Bourbon in Aix where he met his close friend Emile Zola.

Paul had enrolled at Aix University to study law with the encouragement of his father, but it clearly seemed that he would not follow his family and read law. Emile Zola encouraged him on this and Paul decided to go to Paris and become an artist. But after moving to Paris, he had a very unhappy period because he could not keep up with the sophisticated life of Paris and felt lonely. He then returned to Aix, but he did not stay there for a long time and returned to Paris with encouragement again.

Paul often went to the Louvre Museum and imitated great artists. He made his first works influenced by his masters and great masters of that period. Cézanne made new friends in Paris. He joined the intellectuals at Cafe Guerbois in the Batignolles district of Paris. Cézanne met Camille Pissarro here, and thanks to him, Manet met names like Monet Renoir. One of the artists rejected by the Official Hall was Cézanne. He sent many pictures to Salon but all of them were rejected. In the beginning of his career, his works were exhibited in the same place as Manet, Pissarro and Whistler.

When Cézanne settled in the same house with her boyfriend Hortense Fiquet, she did not tell her family about this because she did not want her father to cut her pocket money. For this reason, he had hidden his new family from his family in Aix. Eight years after he started living with Hortense, his father learned the truth and began to withdraw his help.

In 1886, his close friend Emile Zola published a novel, l’oeuvre. This novel was based on an unsuccessful artist, believed to have told about Cézanne’s life. Their friendship ended after this novel was published. Also married to Hortense that year, Paul moved to Jas de Bouffan by taking the family legacy after his father’s death.

In 1895, his first exhibition was held at the Ambroise Vollard gallery.

Cézanne has adopted a drawing style that extends to the thing under the float. While the Impressionist painters of the same period worked quite fast to capture the instant light appearance on the surface, Paul worked slowly. He said that he wanted to “create a strong and durable Impressionism, just like works of art in museums”.

Cézanne said that he wanted to conquer Paris with an apple, that is, to be famous for his still life.

His art is seen today as having a significant influence on the development of 20th century Western art. Historians accept Cézanne as the basis of modern art, in which Cubism was born and then abstraction was born.