Planina Sen Viktoar najčešći je motiv na njegovim slikama Mount Saint-Victoire Mountain is the most common motif in his paintings
to painting and enrolled in a free painting school in 1857, where he discovered his talent, after which, in 1862, he moved to Par- is, though he never succeeded in enrolling in the city’s National School of Fine Arts. There he came into contact with impressionists Pissarro, Sisley, Monet and Renoir. He exhibited in Paris with oth- er Impressionists numerous times, but critics ridiculed his works. Disappointed, he withdrew and returned to his home in Aix-en- Provence, where he lived in complete isolation and practically didn’t leave his studio, only to become famous after his death. He was highly rated during his life by Picasso, who consid- ered him the father of modern art. “He is the father of us all,” said Picasso. He considered this artist his great protector and teach- er, which he showed only through the purchase of Cézanne’s works, but also through the purchase of the famous Château of Vauvenargues (where Picasso is buried) to the west of Saint-Vic- toire Mountain, because this mysterious mountain was a com- mon motif of Cézanne’s paintings. Picasso is said to have often carried a gun loaded with blanks that he would red at people he considered boring, but also those who said something o en- sive against his idol, Paul Cézanne. And the queenly landscape of his youth, the aforemen- tioned Sainte-Victoire Mountain, dominates Cézanne’s work: 44 oil paintings and 43 watercolours are preserved in muse- ums and private collections worldwide. Be sure to walk to the ‘plateau of the painter’, as it’s known locally, where you will see precisely what the artist saw while he sat and created. This a place where you will undoubtedly feel the presence of the in- imitable Cézanne.
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