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IMPRESSIONS...

1. Look at the pictures and match them with the correct artist.

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1. Edouard MaNet

2. Frederic BaZille

3. Vincent VAn Gogh

4. Claude MoNet

5. Tolouse LautreC

6. Edgar DEgas

7. Auguste REnoir

2. Now, put the�CAPITAL,�underlined�letters in order and�discover the name of the secret artist!

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3. Read the the 1st part of the text about this Impressionist artist.

Early Life and work

Paul Cezanne was born on January 19, 1839, in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence. Cezanne developed artistic interest at an early age and joined his companion and author Emile Zola in Paris in 1861, after many disputes with his father because of his desire to dedicate himself to painting. Cezanne's stay in Paris lasted only six months. Though attracted by the more radical art forms in Paris, admiring the works by Eug�ne Delacroix, Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, he destroyed many canvases during depressive moments and returned home full of self-doubt. A year spent working with his father, however, convinced him to try a painter's life again. Cezanne's early works were dark and composed of heavy, fluid pigment suggesting the moody, romantic expression of previous generations.

Cezanne returned to Paris suffering a new defeat when failing the entrance exam for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Worse, his paintings�were rejected by the Salon. Thanks to Pissarro, he�was introduced to Impressionist painters such as Manet and Degas.

4. Decide if the sentences are TRUE or FALSE.

1. He was born at the�beginning of the 19th century.

2. He was European.

3. He joined Zola when he was a teenager.

4. His father wanted him to be an artist.

5. He didn't like working with his father.��

6. He was accepted at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. �

7. Pisarro helped him. �

5. Read the second part of the text and choose a suitable heading for each paragraph.

1870

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At 30, Cezanne changed his style and his habits. The black and morbid atmosphere of his painting gradually changed as he concentrated on landscape subjects. This period is also known as "constructive", characterized by the grouping of parallel brushstrokes that have the power to build a feeling of mass. After the birth of his son, Cezanne moved with his family to Pontoise, where Pissarro lived. For two years the two men spent long periods together. Pissarro introduced him to Impressionist painting and his work is finally exhibited together with other Impressionist works in 1874.

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Pissarro's influence is seen through the lightened palette. Throughout his career, he kept painting directly from nature. However, Cezanne reacted against the lack of structure in the Impressionist paintings and said that he intended to make Impressionism into "something solid and durable, like the art of the museums". He innovated beyond Impressionism and is considered one of the Post-Impressionist artists such as Seurat, Van Gogh and Gauguin.

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For many years, still-lifes and landscapes were Cezanne's main topics. Composing more than 200 still-life paintings, Cezanne wanted to 'conquer Paris with an apple'. 'Apples and Oranges' is one of his most famous still-life compositions. Applying the same methodical analysis to these works as he did with his landscapes, Cezanne recorded the slightest variations in tone and color observed over long periods as well as the forms from empirical geometry he considered the most frequent in nature - the 'cylinder, sphere and the cone'.

1. SCIENCE AND NATURE

2. IMPORTANCE OF LIGHT

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3. WINDS OF CHANGE

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4. PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION

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6. Read the final part of the text and complete it with the�correct form of the verbs given.

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1890

In his late fifties however, Cezanne's work finally �to attract the attention it . Ambroise Vollard, an art dealer, �an exhibit of Cezanne's work in Paris in 1895. Appreciation and acceptance of his innovative work��, and Vollard even �every painting from Cezanne's studio in 1897. Young artists �to Aix to see him at work.

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End of his life

Cezanne's artistic search��him to study the same subjects over and over, varying his approach each time. 'The Great Bathers', a monumental piece showing women in a landscape, is a revision of a favourite subject, first explored in 1875.

In later years, Cezanne's health�. On October 22 1906, Cezanne �of pneumonia.

7. Read the complete text again and find�words for the following definitions.�

1. The product of extertion, labor or activity�

2.�A piece of closely woven, heavy cloth of cotton, hemp, or linen on which a painting is made

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3.�A thin and usually oval or oblong board or tablet with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters for holding and mixing colors

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