Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (French: Paul Cézanne, January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose style ranged from Impressionism to Cubism. His works laid the foundation for the transformation of 19th-century artistic concepts into 20th-century artistic styles, and he was hailed as "the father of us all" by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The painting methods used by Cézanne, as well as his artistic proposition that all objects in nature can be composed of three structures: cylinders, spheres and cones, profoundly influenced and revolutionized 20th century art, especially his first solo exhibition in 1895 and the official retrospective of his works in 1907.