Paul Cézanne 
Born in 1839, he gets an excellent education in
Aix-en-Provence where he made the acquaintance of Emile Zola (future famous
French writer). Very young he find his vocation for artistic creation. He
registered at the Swiss academy of painting where his style surprised because he
multiplied contrasts and colors. In spite of the numerous critics, in spite of
deception and loneliness, he went to Paris where he became a friend of Monet. He
gets associated with the movement of the Impressionists that refuse the vision
of an immovable nature in its shapes. Success is not coming yet; disappointed Cézanne
returned to Aix-en-Provence where he carries on with his work. He’ll never
sell one of his painting, he doesn’t even try to exhibit them. In 1884, he
tries to break with loneliness and gets married. One of his friends, Vollard,
attempted to make this Provencal painter known to the public but it’s again a
failure. He then devotes all his life painting the countryside of Aix that he
passionately loves, with its red ground, its poplars, its pines and, in the
background the majestic Mountain Sainte Victoire whose silhouette dominate a
great number of his most famous canvas.
