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

His fans stress his position as the oldest among them, a networker who brought many of them together and prompted Cezanne to paint outdoors, and as the only artist who took part in all eight of the Impressionists’ exhibitions, which he helped organize.

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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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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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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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