Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Happy 172nd Birthday, Paul Cezanne!

I’m not the one to keep track of birthdays, let alone for someone who has been gone so many years ago, but I saw Google’s caption and couldn’t help myself. I don’t know what it is about Cezanne’s paintings that makes them move me like Beethoven does in music. Maybe it is his exploratory brushstrokes, the degree of abstraction, or the sensitivity in his art, but what ever it is, I am glad he was born.

And since I decided as a new year’s resolution to find and concentrate on something good in each day, this birthday is it for today.

So, Happy Birthday, Cezanne!