Impressionism cannot be counted as a part of modern art, and Cezanne, the recognized originator of modern painting, is post-impressionism. Besides looking at famous paintings, can you see them in Cezanne's paintings? The color is messy, the shape of the object is completely wrong, the sense of space is chaotic, and the composition is mediocre. A typical work of a beginner without talent. According to my conscience, can you really see things like "turning indifference into enthusiasm, turning the surface into the essence, and turning the outside into the inside" in his paintings?
Cezanne himself doesn't want to paint like this, but he has no artistic talent and is very clumsy. Although he was admitted to the Paris Higher School of Fine Arts for many times, because of his "excessive color", the result can only be tried and tested. His paintings are not only "disliked by others, but also disliked by himself", and even called "hodgepodge" by himself. Impressionist painter Manet also called his paintings "dirty paintings with swollen gums". Even "the poor painters in the art school laughed at him." All his life, he dreamed of being "seriously regarded as a painter, not a desire for honor" and hoped that the official salon would accept his works. He even shouted, "I wish I could be selected for the salon in bouguereau!"
Some of Cezanne's painting theories were actually artificially created later. In the last two years of Cezanne's life, Emile Bernard, an artistic youth who is said to be a "student" of Gauguin, visited Cezanne in 1904 to "induce Cezanne to speak his artistic thoughts systematically". Honest Cezanne felt embarrassed and advised him not to write an article. Cezanne famously said, "We should use cylinders, spheres and cones to deal with nature." But in all Cezanne's works, we don't see any pursuit of "cylinder", "sphere" or "cone". At best, we can only see rows of scattered and expressionless colors in his rough brushstrokes.
Almost all books introducing modern painting require us to assume that modern art has a set of philosophy when we look at it, and then try to "fit" it with the highest possible theory when we appreciate it. To put it bluntly, all the works introducing modern painting are actually saying the same sentence: "Only smart people can see it."
A French news agency once did an experiment: they asked some cleaners to dip their street sweepers in paint and daub it on drawing paper casually, then framed the paper and displayed it in a big art museum, which made a big publicity and invited many art critics and modernist painters to enjoy it. As a result, this "abstract work" was widely praised, and some even called it "masterpiece", "full of passion and inspiration".
French critic Baudelaire and Mr. He Qing of China both called the rise of modern art "an artistic conspiracy"