Labels:text | black and white | screenshot | font | document OCR: Pastoral scene or idyll Cezanne's early works reveal something of his passionate, dreamy nature, but from his youth he made a determined effort to control his temperament. His childhood friend, Emile Zola, had lived in Paris for two years when Cezanne arrived there to study, and Zola set him a strict timetable for his work. 'From six in the morning until eleven you will go to a studio to paint from life. You will then have lunch, then, between noon and four in the afternoon you will copy a masterpiece of your choice in the Louvre or the Luxembourg.' This rigorous programme suited the energetic and determined twenty-two-year old, who was nurturing the twin ambitions of entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and of exhibiting at the Salon - the Salon de Bouguereau, as he called it. Cézanne achiev ...
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