{"id":65,"date":"2018-10-23T16:12:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/grenoble-fall-2018\/?p=65"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:12:49","slug":"visiting-paul-cezanne-in-aix-en-provence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/grenoble-fall-2018\/2018\/10\/23\/visiting-paul-cezanne-in-aix-en-provence\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Paul Cezanne in Aix-en-Provence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.\u201d \u2013 Paul Cezanne.<\/p>\n

The Post-impressionist painter was born in the late 1800\u2019s and highly impacted the transition of the art evolution during the 19th<\/sup> century. Paul Cezanne was a French artist who was born and lived most of his life in Aix-en-Provence, France, a very colorful city located in the southeast of France just a few miles from the Mediterranean Sea. Aix-en-Provence has preserved Cezanne\u2019s story and continues to embrace his achievement even years after his death.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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After a two-hour city tour, I witnessed plenty of beautiful water fountains found all throughout the city. The city was filled with Medieval architecture, bright clay-like buildings, and stone churches. We walked past the Ancien College Royal de Bourbon, a school founded by Henry IV in 1603 which Paul Cezanne was a student of. We came across the church of La Madeline, where Cezanne\u2019s funeral was held. He died the 23rd<\/sup> of October in 1906. The building that once used to be his home currently inhabits other locals.<\/p>\n

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Cezanne grew up with a passion to display his thoughts and emotions through art, something his father was against. Cezanne\u2019s father was a successful man who had enough economic wealth to support his son, but he did not because his father wanted Cezanne to study law and become a lawyer. Some of his well-known artworks include Apples and Oranges (1900), The Lac d\u2019Annecy (1896), and The Kiss of the\u00a0Muse (1860).<\/p>\n

Aix-en-Provence is currently a bright welcoming city. Locals are very friendly, and they encourage tourists to engage in the French culture. It is a diverse city containing stores and restaurants specializing in different cuisine and fashion such as Japanese and Italian.<\/p>\n

The city center has a lot to offer. Street performers are out singing, dancing, or playing music. Local businesses sell original handmade soaps, jewelry, clothing, and food on the weekends. Aix-en-Provence specializes in a special treat known as Calissons, a chewy treat made from almonds and oranges. Aix certainly was one of the liveliest cities I have visited this semester.<\/p>\n

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