The Mount Sainte-Victoire: The possible impacts of Cézanne on modern paintings

Abstract

As the "father of modern painting", Cézanne's creative ideas and techniques have had a profound influence on subsequent generations of artists. To this day, many artists still admire his creative and revolutionary painting theories. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the techniques and ideas of Cézanne's series of paintings around the Mount Sainte-Victoire and to explore his inspiration for subsequent artists to break through the constraints of traditional painting techniques and creatively express their subjective consciousness by using flat shapes, multi-point perspective, and multiple painting types. In this way, we can clarify the position of Cézanne in art history and the inspiration his ideas and works have brought to people. This paper is divided into two parts, the first part is about the analysis of the concept, technique and style of Cézanne's landscapes with the Mount Sainte-Victoire as the theme; the second part is about the specific distinction and explanation of the succession and development of Cézanne's style by modern artists represented by Picasso, Matisse and Klimt.