Post Impressionism, as the name would suggest, is the art movement that directly followed Impressionism. One artist who led the Post Impressionism movement was the French artist, Paul Cézanne. Much of his early work was pure Impressionism and, although he was introduced to the style and guided by Camille Pissarro, Cézanne's works showed a distinctive uniqueness. Cézanne broke away from Impressionism because of the lack of composition; he felt the desire to depict subjects in the third dimension as well as appear flat. Cézanne did not agree with the Impressionistic trait of portraying the world through light, instead, he built up images by generous use of color. Cézanne would distort objects and his works would often consist of numerous viewpoints on the one canvas.
             Cézanne worked with and was greatly influenced by other Impressionists he associated with, including Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir. It was Pissarro who guided Cézanne and convinced him to break up the color and use shorter brush strokes when painting; among Cézanne's friends, Pissarro was the only one patient enough to teach him. Cézanne also admired Romantic painter, Eugène Delacroix, who used color instead of lines to define objects; this inspired him to endeavor his quest for composition using color alone. Many aspects of Cézanne's early works can be traced back to the compositions of Delacroix's works.
             Cézanne strived to add a form to Impressionism therefore he strayed from his peers, whom he believed lacked composition in their works. He did not have the same attraction towards the light as did many Impressionists, he believed that the structure of objects should be portrayed through color, not light, "I seek to render perspective only through color". Cézanne created the illusion of depth in his works by adding numerous layers of color to distinguish the form of his subjects. He would perfect the design in his works by distorting objects and ha...