Paul Cézanne, Apples, 1878-79. The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
As Tate Modern celebrates the life and work of Paul Cézanne in The EY Exhibition: Cezanne, a major retrospective exhibition this winter, join art historian and broadcaster Jacky Klein to look at how it was that a reclusive, deeply devout anti-modernist came to be the founder of modern art – and uncover where his influence is still in evidence today.
Cézanne is renowned as the great 19th century painter of still lives and bathers, French peasants and the Mont Sainte-Victoire, working in the most traditional of genres, from landscape to portraiture. But in his work from the 1880s through to his death in 1906, he began a revolution in painting, creating what the art historian Ernst Gombrich called ‘a landslide in art’. His ever-more courageous, ‘modern’ mode of painting – which insisted on conveying the essence of a subject rather than its mere ‘impression’ – showed a radical disregard for the realism dominant since the Renaissance, and pointed the way to the increasingly abstract experiments of the 20th century.
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