Cézanne

[si-zan, sey-zan]

noun

1. Paul 1839–1906, French painter.

Cézanne

/ sezan /

noun

1. Paul (pɔl). 1839–1906, French postimpressionist painter, who was a major influence on modern art, esp cubism, in stressing the structural elements latent in nature, such as the sphere and the cone

Example Sentences

The show will feature the entirety of the collection before it is dispersed to its various new homes, including dozens of pieces by Paul Cézanne and work by Van Gogh, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Gauguin, Chaïm Soutine and other Modernist masters.

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MoMA — known for its world-class department of drawings and prints — will be gifted 28 works, with a focus on Cézanne.

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Aside from trying to wedge such wildly disparate Catholic artists as Fra Bartolomeo, Paul Cézanne, Tsuguharu Foujita and Andy Warhol into a single coherent exhibition, reducing art to illustration just undermines it.

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The subject — bathers — is as foundational to Modern art as it gets, conjuring Paul Cézanne.

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Early in the 20th century, French iconoclast Marcel Duchamp described a new “scientific spirit” for avant-garde art, noting the methodical painterly investigations of predecessors Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne.

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