Paul Cézanne
Claude Monet was obsessed with Rouen cathedral's facade, haystacks, and waterlilies. His friend Paul Cézanne was obsessed with Mont Sainte-Victoire, which is a mountain in southern France overlooking Aix-en-Provence.
Only half a year after the opening of the Aix-Marseille line on October 15, 1877, in a letter to Émile Zola dated April 14, 1878, Cézanne praised the Mont Sainte-Victoire, which he viewed from the train while passing through the railway bridge at Arc River Valley, as a "beau motif (beautiful motif)" and, in about that same year, he began the series wherein he tropicalized this mountain. In his paintings, Cézanne sought to reveal the inner geometry of nature, "to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of museums." And he reached his goal; for some of the greatest painters of the 20th century (including Pablo Picasso) Cézanne was like an artistic father-figure.
P.S. Not only Cézanne was obsessed with a mountain; another famous artist also painted the same view hundreds of times in a different part of the world. Can you guess who? Check it here!
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