This artist was the subject of the first and most famous monograph by Ambroise (*) Vollard, who kicked off his career with exhibitions of this artist.
The importance of this artist's watercolors was first recognized in a book that spends ten pages noting the compression of circles into ovals in one of this artist's still lifes. The formalist ideas outlined in Vision and Design were applied in an epoch-making study of this artist's "Development," by Roger Fry. According to another essay, this artist attempted to give the viewer a "lived perspective" where sight gives a sense of touch. This artist was the subject of the first and most famous monograph by Ambroise (*) Vollard, who kicked off his career with exhibitions of this artist. Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote an essay about this painter's "Doubt." Two of this artist's most famous paintings feature compotiers. Both Matisse and Picasso have been quoted as calling this artist "the father of us all," since he tried to "treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" in his still lifes of fruit. For 10 points, name this French post-Impressionist, who painted many views of Mont Sainte-Victoire.
The importance of this artist's watercolors was first recognized in a book that spends ten pages noting the compression of circles into ovals in one of this artist's still lifes.
Paul Cézanne [accept "Cézanne's Doubt"; accept Cézanne. A Study of His Development]