Paul Cezanne Author:Kathryn Dixon Paul Cezanne, a French artist and Post Impressionist painter, was an important catalyst to the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to the modern and radically different world of art that emerged full bore in the 20th century. Cezanne successfully melded the structural impulse of Classicism with the color and emotion ... more »of Romanticism, inspiring the generations of artists who followed him to see and portray the world in a more abstract manner.« less