Narrator: Paul Cézanne was born in the south of France, in 1839.
Later, he moved to Paris to study art.
He was inspired by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
Cézanne wanted to take a different approach to painting and the use of colour.
To explore this, he chose to paint still life.
Still life is something that you can see in real life but it doesn’t move, like a bowl of fruit.
He realised if you look closely at an object the area around where you’re looking is soft and out of focus.
This gave Cézanne an idea.
He used small brushstrokes of colour to show the edges of an object instead of an outline.
Then he added light, shadows and texture to the object to make it stand out.
Paul Cézanne dared to be different and led the way for artists everywhere to look at things from a new perspective.
