Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
31,194 artists in the collection
César Galicia
Cesari, Giuseppe
Italian
Roman, 1568 - 1640
Cesar Pelli and Associates
Cesati, Alessandro, called Il Grechetto
Italian
Roman, active 1538/1564
Ceschin, Livio
Italian
Italian, born 1962
Cesi, Bartolomeo
Italian
Bolognese, 1556 - 1629
Cestmir Kafka
Cesura, Pompeo
Italian
Italian, died 1571
Cevedra B. Sheldon
Cezanne, Paul
French
French, 1839 - 1906
Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, UK also siz-AN, US also say-ZAHN; French: [pɔl sezan]; Occitan: Pau Cesana; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism. While his early works were influenced by Romanticism—such as the murals in the Jas de Bouffan country house—and Realism, Cézanne arrived at a new pictorial language through intense examination of Impressionist forms of expression. He altered conventional approaches to perspective and broke established rules of academic art by emphasizing the underlying structure of objects in a composition and the formal qualities of art. Cézanne strived for a renewal of traditional design methods on the basis of the impressionistic colour space and colour modulation principles. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his...
C.F. Aagaard
C.F. Christensen