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Paul
Cezanne's works and ideas were influential in
the aesthetic development of many 20th-century
artists and art movements, especially Cubism.
Cézanne's 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 through its insistence on personal
expression and on the integrity of the painting
itself.
Paul Cezanne, who exhibited little during his
lifetime and pursued his work in increasing
isolation, is regarded today as one of the great
forerunners of modern painting. As an artist,
Cezanne matured slowly. Art scholars maintain
his greatest works were completed during the
last 25 years of his life. In particular, the
evolution of cubism and abstraction are due
to his innovations. Since 1890, his work influenced
nearly every avant-garde movement in painting.
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