Paul Cézanne is often described as the father of Modern art. He was one of the first artists to be interested in shapes or forms for their own sake instead of the subjects they represented. Most painters of the time painted light and shade as they saw it. Cézanne saw all the objects he painted as three-dimensional shapes and he liked to use his brushstrokes to make them clear. He said, ‘Everything in nature takes its forms from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.