Both Cézanne and Pollock understood that although their art was turning
             away from traditional forms, art is continuity. Never disregarding the Old
             Master, Cézanne is said to be the father of modernism and Pollock the man who
             brought art from Paris to America. These two men, both known as avant-garde
             artists, one whose aim in life was to paint fruit and avoid people, the other
             who spent most of his time drunk, two great artists who revolutionized the art
             world with their use of new material and techniques and with their ideas and
             theories. Cézanne began as an Impressionist but soon became frustrated, as
             Impressionist did not generate paintings that were compositionally strong, and
             so the creator of Modernism set out on a journey to empower objects with
             three-dimensional solidity. Cézanne wanted to establish an equilibrium between
             the vivacious color and solid form of three-dimensional objects and the
             two-dimensional surface of the picture plane. (Post-Impressionism: Cezanne,
             Nineteenth-Century Art, pg 478). Similarly, Pollock was a modernist whose works
             were most prominent between 1948 and 1952. Pollock set out to explain as well as
             he could an emotional response to the day-to-day problems that are thrown in our
             face. Lee Siegal believes Pollock painted as if living and painting were
             identical. (Critical Eye, Lee Siegal, pg 3).
             Picasso, and the traditional Indian and Mexican ways of working inspired
             Pollock. Working mainly on the floor, Pollock would drip paint on the
             un-stretched canvas, sometimes hanging it on the wall to change the direction of
             the paint. Pollock was an artist who believed in art for art's sake. Cézanne on
             the other hand was still a realist, while Pollock worked with surrealism and
             abstract art. Cézanne was a realist he painted what he saw, but did not imitate
             it. By using many different techniques Cézanne was able to create something so ...