influence and innovation of the master

Last night I had the pleasure of watching a program on PBS about Paul Cezanne.  In  the show, Picasso was quoted as saying Cezanne was the "father of us all". 

Cezanne was his own man - he painted as he felt he should and did not believe in blindly following the style of his time.  His work is impressionistic but slips into abstraction before anyone else even thought to see that way.

Cezanne has always been one of my favorites - how could he not be?  There are plenty of places to buy an art print reproduction of Paul Cezanne’s on the net and elsewhere. 

On the other hand, it is also possible to buy original art prints  - affordable due to digital painting - and though not a now tried and true classic - perhaps innovative in the same way as Paul Cezanne was - at least it is my intent to follow my own path.

See Also

• Cezanne in Provence
  Info about the PBS special on Paul Cezanne’s life and work
• Cezanne in Provence - Image Gallery
  Some images of art work shown in show
• Impressionist Art Gallery
  Outhouse Studios gallery with more unintentional Cezanne influence