Cezanne, Paul

1839 – Born on the 19^th of January in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence.

1862 - after a number of bitter family disputes, the aspiring artist was given a small allowance and sent to study art in Paris, where Zola had already gone.

1872 - Cézanne shifted from dark tones to bright hues and began to concentrate on scenes of farmland and rural villages.

1874 - Cézanne was accepted by the group and exhibited with them. His works received the harshest critical commentary.

1870s - . He drifted away from many of his Parisian contacts and spent much of his time in his native Aix.

1886 - Cézanne became embittered over what he took to be thinly disguised references to his own failures in one of Zola's novels.

          - He became financially independent when he inherited his father's wealth.

1895 - Ambroise Vollard, an ambitious Paris art dealer, arranged a show of Cézanne's works and over the next few years promoted them successfully.

1899 - He left most of his works unfinished and destroyed many others. He complained of his failure at rendering the human figure, and indeed the great figural works of his last years—such as the Large Bathers

1904 - Cézanne was featured in a major official exhibition.

1906 – At the time of his death on the 22^nd of October, he had attained the status of a legendary figure.

• "We live in a rainbow of Chaos."