Paul Cézanne was born on January 19, 1839 in Aix-en- Provence. Throughout his life he was known as timid and introverted, rarely trusting anybody. Besides his mother, he rarely had relationships with women. He attended school where he studied law, due to his father's wishes, but ultimately fell in love with art. He would turn to his art to relieve his constant stress and role as a “social misfit.” It was his inability to control his introversion and his natural state of being withdrawn that led to his compulsive painting style. It was something that he could control. He was obsessive and throughout his life has a restricted spectrum of subject matter since he repeatedly returned to the same subject over and over. He dabbled with Impressionism, mostly due to his friend, Camille Pisarro and exhibited in the first and third Impressionism exhibits. But Impressionism just did not satisfy him clearly depicted when he once said “I want to make of Impressionism something solid and enduring, like the art in museums.” He thus turned slightly from Impressionism, opposed to its singular use of aesthetic value, and created his own path- the one for which he would be most famous. This is the path discussed in my website. Because of his evolving style and thus the resulting movements of art, such as Fauvism and Cubism, Cézanne is seen as the “most important post-Impressionist painter,” as well as the artist that “put an end to four centuries reign of imitativeness painting” (Harrison 151,158). He is coined as the father of modern art. A strong, yet fitting, role. He continued to produce a plethora of work, rarely signing nor dating his paintings, culminating with a decade of intense watercolors. Cézanne died on October 22, 1906 leaving behind hundreds of paintings that created the stepping stones for the art following his life. It would take twenty years for mostly anyone to recognize the significance of Cézanne’s art but once it was realized, it is undeniable.