Editing Paul Cézanne (section)

===Impressionist period, Provence and Paris, 1870–1878===
[[File:Jas de bouffan.jpg|thumb|''The Pool at Jas de Bouffan'', 1876]]

[[Camille Pissarro]] lived in [[Pontoise]]. There and in Auvers he and Cézanne painted landscapes together. For a long time afterwards, Cézanne described himself as Pissarro's pupil, referring to him as "God the Father", as well as saying: "We all stem from Pissarro."<ref>Brion 1974, p. 26</ref> Under Pissarro's influence Cézanne began to abandon dark colours and his canvases grew much brighter,<ref>Rosenblum 1989, p. 348</ref> and he now used a colour palette based purely on the basic tones, yellow, red and blue. In doing so, he broke away from his technique of heavy, often overloaded-looking application of paint and adopted the loose painting technique of his role models, consisting of brushstrokes placed side by side.

Portraits and figurative compositions receded in these years. Cézanne subsequently created landscape paintings in which the illusionistic deep space was canceled more and more clearly. The “objects” continue to be understood as volumes and reduced to their basic geometric shapes. This design method is transferred to the entire picture area. The painterly gesture now treats the “distance” in a similar way to the “objects” themselves, giving the impression of a long-distance effect. In this way, Cézanne left the traditional pictorial space on the one hand, but on the other hand counteracted the dissolving impression of Impressionist pictorial works.