Happy Birthday, Paul Cézanne!

From the Wikipedia entry on Paul Cézanne:

Paul Cézanne (French pronunciation: [pɔl seˈzan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne "is the father of us all" cannot be easily dismissed.

Part of the purpose of this blog is to promote important, influential artists and art museums.  I grew up going to the Philadelphia Art Museum.  Perhaps you've seen the museum steps in the movie Rocky.  It has the look and feel of the Acropolis in Greece.  For me, it was a place where on Sunday mornings you could take an army of children (siblings and cousins) and get in for free if you agreed to get out before 2pm (I think).  And you could give young people a chance to see important works of art up close.  It remains to this day one of my favorite places to go.



Photo by Nfutvol

 If you go the the Art Museum website, you can creat "My Gallery" and collect works that the museum has.  It is pretty neat in that you can see what the museum has to offer, but also the pages on the individual works have interesting information and some of them have audio clips from the tours that you can listen to. It will tell you if the piece of art is on display or not and if it is, it will even tell you in which gallery it is located.  Essentially, you can host and/or promote a virtual tour.  Pretty cool.  Here is a link to my collection of Cézanne paintings.  And here is a screen shot of what the My Gallery feature looks like.  You will most likely see other My Gallery links here on The Ink Puddle Art Blog.