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On the trail of Cézanne: Modern art in the south of France

Source: news.independent.co.uk. Posted on 22 January 2006.

High on a sandstone ridge above the city of Aix-en-Provence, there is an ancient quarry, overgrown with twisted pine trees, wild rosemary and sage. Under the sharp Mediterranean sun, trees and rocks are jumbled together in bizarre shapes and startling, jarring colours. It was here that a cantankerous old man who abhorred everything in the modern world, from railways to light bulbs, accidentally 'invented' modern art.

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