Essay About Paul Cezanne And Following Year

Paul Cezanne
Essay title: Paul Cezanne
When most people think of Paul Cezanne, they think of two
words genius and painting. For these two words he is consider by
far to be the Father of modern painting. Cezanne was born in
Aix-en-Provence in 1839. He was to die in the same town in 1906.
His life and art work was greatly influenced by this small town
in France.
He was the son of a shrewd business man, Louis-Auguste
Cezanne. As a boy growing up in Aix, Cezanne loved to study Greek
and Latin literature. At the age of thirteen, Paul met Emile Zola
at the College Bourbon. The friendship was very important for
both of the young men and lasted until the publication of Zolas
novel LOeuvre in 1886, in which the writer portrays an
unsuccessful artist whose character based upon Paul. Deeply hurt,
Cezanne broke forever with his longtime friend. At school, the
boys were nearly inseparable. Both were interested in writing and
literature. Emile and Paul would write letters and rhymed verse
to each other for the next decade or so in which they expressed
their most intimate feelings and emotions together with
information about their everyday life. Pauls father disapproved
of Zola and his family especially after Emiles father had died.
In February 1858 Zola moved to Paris together with his
mother. Which made Paul want to go to Paris to join up with
Emile. When in 1861 he finally obtained his fathers permission
to study art in Paris, Cezannes first attempt to settle down
there failed. Disillusioned with the art world, he returned to
his family after only six months and entered his fathers bank as
a clerk. The following year he went to Paris again, and this time
he stayed. During this years he lead a rather frugal life due to
his fathers meager allowance. Every year he submitted canvases
to the artists Salons, but was regularly rejected. Cezanne did
his first show with a group named the “Society of Painters,
Draftsman, Sculptors, and Engravers” comprised of Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Pissarro and Cezanne
himself. The groups first show was in April