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01:09Bonjour! Bonjour, monsieur!
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01:21At a time when French art favored overblown paintings of grand historical scenes, Cézanne went right back to basics, capturing
01:29the simplest things almost alive in their moment in time.
01:33You can tell he got inspiration from this area. The light here is stunning. The colors here, not just in
01:40the market, but a lot of artists, not just Cézanne, came down because of the light.
01:44You know, we have this crazy wind called the Mistral, and that cleans the sky, and so you have this
01:49really beautiful soft light, and Cézanne's claim to fame was light.
01:53They, like, jumped out at you. They were almost 3D.
01:56They vibrate almost, and so that's also, when you look at them, that gives you this emotion.
02:00Wow.
02:02In the 1860s, Cézanne left Provence and traveled to Paris, convinced he would revolutionize art.
02:09Instead, his paintings were mocked as unsophisticated, and he was seen as an oddball yokel.
02:15Undeterred, he left the city and returned to the south to pursue his revolutionary vision.
02:21Some say that it's really where he found his voice as an artist, because he was so enamored with the
02:26light, with nature.
02:29As we head further into the countryside, I'm stunned by a vast, brooding mountain I've only ever seen in paintings.
02:36This is beautiful.
02:38It's called Montagne Saint-Victoire, and this is the mountain that Cézanne painted over 80 times.
02:44Wow.
02:45This landscape is, like, dominated by this mountain.
02:49It is overwhelming, this sight, this view.
02:52It really became the star of the painting and also of the region.
02:55And people say it was his mistress, because he really spent a lot of time with it.
03:00He must have been in love with that mountain, for sure.
03:02He painted it 80 times.
03:04Exactly.
03:04I thought he liked the apple.
03:07The way the Montagne Saint-Victoire constantly changes in the light captivated Cézanne until the day he died in 1906.
03:15His work still largely unrecognized.
03:18In 2022, one of his paintings of this mountain sold at auction for $138 million.
03:29Alexis has brought me to an event that feels priceless and perfectly provençal.
03:33Wow.
03:34This dinner is for Cézanne?
03:36It's a special dinner for Cézanne.
03:37I don't think I've ever had a dinner this beautiful.
03:41Yeah.
03:42Hundreds of people have gathered here at the foot of Cézanne's mountain to share a three-course meal and celebrate
03:48food and art.
03:50Bonsoir.
03:53It's the creation of our friend and Bouillabay's chef, Emmanuel Perraudin.
03:58On the menu is the Provençal food Cézanne loved, including duck roasted with olives and local vegetables filled with grains
04:06and ground meat.
04:07Santé.
04:08Bon appétit.
04:10And that's not all.
04:12Oh my God, apples!
04:15Wow.
04:16Merci beaucoup.
04:17They are beautiful.
04:19For dessert, Cézanne's apples, reimagined as a fresh sorbet and crisp white chocolate and a fruit glaze.
04:27Wow.
04:28What's it?
04:28Mmm.
04:29From this tiny little painting of an apple to something as grand as this mountain, and he made both things
04:37so personal and intimate.
04:39It is a beautiful relation.
04:41From artists to chefs and beyond, people in Provence are delightfully open to the world around them.
04:48They draw inspiration from nature and from their Mediterranean neighbors, and blow out a creative energy from this corner of
04:57France to the entire world.
05:00To be continued.
05:02To be continued.
05:03To be continued.
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