Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is the painter without whom none of the 20th century happens. Picasso called him “the father of us all.” Matisse said the same thing in different words. The Cubists, the Fauves, the Cubist-adjacent Italian Futurists, and most of the abstract painters who came after all reached back to Cézanne for permission to… Continue reading Understanding Cézanne’s Influence on Cubism and Fauvism Movements