🇫🇷 Cézanne's Revolution: Where Art Changed Forever 🎨

📍 Location ➡️ Gem of Southern Provence, 45min by train from Marseille🚂 ➡️ Stay: 2 days⏳ (to soak in art & nature) 💦 City of Fountains Aix's underground springs💧 once flooded the city🌊. Clever mayors built fountains⛲ to tame them. But its real fame comes from Paul Cézanne, father of modern art👨‍🎨! 🖼️ Cézanne's Trail • Childhood Home🏠 • Musée Granet🖼️ (see his masterpieces) • Roman Quarry⛏️ - his secret vantage point for Mont Sainte-Victoire (painted 80+ times🏔️) 💡 Artistic Breakthrough Under these shady trees🌳, Cézanne revolutionized art: 🔍 Flaw: Traditional lines/shading failed depth 🎨 Fix: Color variations create 3D effects 👉 Painting Mont Sainte-Victoire, he focused on: Mountain's gray🏔️ vs sky's blue🌤️ Distant green🌲 vs foreground yellow🌾 🏡 Atelier Visit His sunlit studio☀️ surrounded by plane trees: • Still displays his still-life props: dried flowers💐, skull☠️, shriveled fruit🍎 • Objects seem to roll off the canvas🌀 🍏 Final Philosophy Later works reduced apples🍏 to color blocks: • Art ≠ copying nature • Capturing impressions matters most • Paved way for Cubism & Fauvism🦁 #ProvenceArt #ModernArtBirthplace #MustVisitAix #ImpressionismRoots