About Cézanne's Card

A small studio for making Cézanne-style cards, built from algorithms rather than filters.

1Painting, not filtering

A card is built patch by patch: base and colour fields first, then colours assigned plane by plane, then short flat-capped patches layered on top, and dark contour lines to close the edges. Stroke direction comes from a quantised hatching field; composition, density and sparsity come from a seeded random engine — reproducible, yet never repeating.

2Colour with a memory

The palette library holds 27 colour sets distilled from Cézanne's works, each with its own mood and period. Uploaded photos pass through a Wu colour quantiser and are then harmonised toward the nearest Cézanne palette, so their colours feel at home on the canvas.

3Yours to keep

From colour extraction to layout to export, it is one continuous workflow: bands, radius, stroke density and sparsity are all adjustable; results export as raster images, vector SVG, an animated build-up GIF, a pasteable HTML snippet, or print to PDF.

4Cézanne's studio at Les Lauves

In 1901 Cézanne built a studio on the Les Lauves hillside north of Aix: a big north window, an even light, and the rest of his life given to the room. It now opens as a museum, with easel, pigments, plaster casts and still-life props arranged as he left them.

5Where are Cézanne's paintings today

The Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie hold the great Paris group; the Musée Granet in Aix is the closest to his studio. MoMA and the Met in New York, the National Gallery and the Courtauld in London, and museums in Moscow and St Petersburg hold major works — a good place to start on Cézanne's paintings.

6Cézanne and Zola

As schoolboys in Aix, Cézanne and the writer Émile Zola skipped class together and talked about painting. Zola went to Paris first and opened the impressionist door for Cézanne; his 1886 novel L'Œuvre was read as a portrait of Cézanne, and thirty years of friendship cooled. It is still the story Aix tells about its two famous sons.

Walk Provence, then return to the studio

The Cézanne's Provence page gathers the mountain, the quarry and where Cézanne's paintings are today; the gallery shows cards built from those same palettes.

Step into Cézanne's Provence Browse the gallery of Cézanne-style cards

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Every page in both languages: the studio, Cézanne's Provence, his paintings and the museums that hold them today.