Q 01/05

With which fruit did Cézanne say he wanted to astonish Paris?

A) A pear

B) An apple

C) A peach

D) An orange

Answer · why

B) An apple

An apple. 'With an apple I will astonish Paris,' he declared, staking his name on still life, the genre the French Academy ranked at the very bottom.

Q 02/05

Cézanne showed with the Impressionists, but which movement is he usually filed under?

A) Post-Impressionism

B) Neo-Impressionism

C) Expressionism

D) Constructivism

Answer · why

A) Post-Impressionism

Post-Impressionism. The label is English, not French: the critic Roger Fry popularised it with his 1910 London show 'Manet and the Post-Impressionists...

Q 03/05

Which mountain near Aix did Cézanne paint dozens of times?

A) Montagne Sainte-Baume

B) Mont Ventoux

C) Mont Sainte-Victoire

D) Montagne de Lure

Answer · why

C) Mont Sainte-Victoire

Mont Sainte-Victoire. One view met only incomprehension when he showed it in Aix in 1895, and he ended up giving the canvas to a young poet who sincer...

Q 04/05

Which famous novelist was Cézanne's schoolfriend in Aix?

A) Alphonse Daudet

B) Gustave Flaubert

C) Guy de Maupassant

D) Émile Zola

Answer · why

D) Émile Zola

Émile Zola. With Baptistin Baille they were 'the three inseparables' at school, and it was Zola, by then in Paris, who chided the wavering Cézanne int...

Q 05/05

Which painter called Cézanne 'my one and only master' and 'the father of us all'?

A) Georges Braque

B) Fernand Léger

C) Pablo Picasso

D) Paul Klee

Answer · why

C) Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso. Paris honoured Cézanne with two memorial shows in 1907, the year after he died, and Picasso and Braque came away with the ideas they so...