After the Impressionists Talk 1: Cézanne

This event is at the Museum in the Headley Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom.

Booking is essential.

The first in our series of talks on Post-Impressionists as Change Makers.

In this talk, Juliet Heslewood reveals how Cézanne observed the southern countryside not as sweeping, but faceted in terms of volume.

Cézanne claimed that the artist 'opens the way for his successors' and his original interpretations of landscape, figures and still-life led to the development of the Cubist movement.

Cézanne’s work grew out of Impressionism, which he left behind as he explored his own daring innovations. He was born and bred in Aix en Provence and returned there after several years in Paris where his knowledge of Impressionism led him to consider the significance of 'sensation' while confronting nature.

The first Impressionist exhibition was in 1874 and caused disruption in the Parisian art world. By the end of the century artists had explored its innovations, liberating them from the conventions of the past. Their dramatic changes, achieved out of the movement, would have wide-spread repercussions, establishing Paris as the centre of the modern European stage.