Paul Cézanne

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A French painter who helped start modern art by painting nature with strong shapes and colours

proper noun
/pɔl seɪˈzæn/

: Paul Cézanne

Many art historians consider Paul Cézanne to be the father of modern art.

Examples

The landscapes painted by Paul Cézanne greatly influenced the cubist movement.
A major exhibition of Paul Cézanne’s works opened at the museum this month.
Look at Paul Cézanne!
I love Paul Cézanne!
A major exhibition of Paul Cézanne’s works opened at the museum this month.
Many art historians consider Paul Cézanne to be the father of modern art.
The landscapes painted by Paul Cézanne greatly influenced the cubist movement.

Synonyms

Cezanne

vsPaul Cézanne

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A French painter from the late 1800s who uses strong shapes and colors and inspires modern art

is the full personal name including the given name for clarity

Surface Forms

Paul Cézanne main

Morphology

Paul + Cézanne

This is a proper name composed of two personal-name constituents; knowing the words 'Paul' and 'Cézanne' does not allow a learner to infer the referent's identity or that he was a French Post‑Impressionist painter. Proper names are arbitrary labels whose biographical/occupational meaning is not compositional or predictable from their parts, so a B1 learner would not derive the MWE meaning from the constituents.

Etymology

Paul Cézanne often painted the same scene many times, using small blocks of color to show the basic shapes under things. That clear way of painting helped later artists see objects in a new way, so today he is seen as a father of 'modern art'.