The Frenchman's influential paintings paved the way for the liberated color and flattened space of Matisse. His work also triggered the breakdown of solid forms into facets by the cubism of ...

Cubism’s historical divide falls between Analytic and Synthetic, the former faceted and monochromatic, the latter planar and more varied in color.

Cezanne under the microscope. CBS News In fact, these closeups of geometric forms help explain why Cézanne is considered a pioneer, paving the way for cubism and abstraction.

Pablo Picasso may have been the single most important and faithful Cézannist, ever. Cubism's kaleidoscopic fracturing of things is just an extension of the breakage already begun by Cézanne.

The uses Impressionism and Cubism made of prior devices is often arresting. The comparatively rapid exhaustion, as styles, of both Impressionism and Cubism resulted from their decorative or ...

The first retrospective of his work in Paris after he died in 1906 jolted the history of Western art, making Cézanne a source of inspiration for everything from Cubism to abstraction.

Focusing on cubism, Glimcher observed, “Mostly, the history of art draws a straight line from Cezanne making sort of cubistic images and flattened spaces of still lifes and mountains and houses ...

A small but intense Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of Cezanne’s paintings and drawings of his wife and most-painted model, Hortense Fiquet, is among the year’s best shows.

Finding Cézanne in "Goodnight Moon" What the classic children's bedtime story and the painter whose work jump-started Modernism have in common ...