http://themoderatevoice.com/27113/cezanne-fading-away-of-god-of-painting/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/27113/cezanne-fading-away-of-god-of-painting/comment-page-1/#comment-183302 Chris Watson Tue, 05 May 2009 03:21:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/27113/cezanne-fading-away-of-god-of-painting/#comment-183302 He's definitely the father of Modernism, which is exactly what I can't stand about him.<br>He's such an average-to-mediocre painter -- far beneath many of his impressionist contemporaries -- but there's a pseudo-intellectual aura that goes through Cezanne to Picasso and the modernists. They're all boring and shallow, of limited talent, but they succeed by flattering timid intellects.<br>Thank goodness that bleak artistic period is long extinct. <br>Long live the art of today. He's definitely the father of Modernism, which is exactly what I can't stand about him.
He's such an average-to-mediocre painter — far beneath many of his impressionist contemporaries — but there's a pseudo-intellectual aura that goes through Cezanne to Picasso and the modernists. They're all boring and shallow, of limited talent, but they succeed by flattering timid intellects.
Thank goodness that bleak artistic period is long extinct.
Long live the art of today.

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