Like Gauguin, Cezanne (1839-1906) began as an Impressionist, or maybe a pseudo-Impressionist. He exhibited in the first and third Independent Exhibitions of Impressionist Painters, but early on the believed that Impressionist Paintings were too airy and superficial. He said, “I wanted to make of Impressionism something solid and enduring, like the art in museums.” Instead of fleeting, light-as-air impressions, Cezanne chose to make forms look solid; he did this by rendering them with thick slabs of color instead flecks of paint. Also, he wasn’t interesting in chasing motion with quick flicks of this brush, but in painting solid things anchored firmly to the ground.
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