... long after their marriage that he revealed the truth to his family. He is said to have written to Zola with tales of fanaticising about killing his family but they were convenient sitters for his paintings. He was a mysterious and misunderstood artist. He was in constant mental and emotional turmoil. Cézanne's work can be divided up into different periods spanning his complex painting career. While he was always interested in the same outcome, his work changed dramatically as he explored it. He saw himself as dealing with the art elements, form and structure, and the mechanics of painting rather than trying to portray a scene or object. It didn't matter what he was painting, just how. "He dedicated his whole life to the artistic problems he set himself" (Gombrich, 2000, P. 538). While his style maintains similar characteristics throughout his whole career, distinct elements can be seen in each ...

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