Sainte-Victoire mountain

Picture taken in: Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône

The Sainte-Victoire mountain near the painter Paul Cézanne's home in Aix-en-Provence was one of his favourite subjects and he is known to have painted it over 60 times. Cézanne was fascinated by the rugged architectural forms in the mountains of Provence and painted the same scene from many different angles. He would use bold blocks of color to achieve a new spatial effect known as ``flat-depth'' to accommodate the unusual geological forms of the mountains. Picasso and others saw him as a forerunner to their cubist technique. Picasso called Cezanne 'the father of us all'. He bought a chateau at the foot of this mountain and is buried there.

aix, cezanne, Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Montagne, La Sainte Victoire, France, Provence

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