As a Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is among the important artists who paved the way to the development of modern art. Many artists and critics believe that modern movements in painting, such as Cubism and Abstraction, appeared mainly because of Cézanne's search for the "underlying structure of the composition". Studying Cézanne's works, Pablo Picasso called Cézanne his "one and only master". We will talk about Cézanne's life and works, his relationship with the Impressionists, and the formal elements in his paintings this week.... more >>

CaféLitt is not a place; it is a gathering of minds. We are a group of mostly Persian young students, scholars and professionals who gather every Thursday evening around 19h00 in a café to discuss various subjects and share different ideas, ranging vastly from history to science, from literature to fine arts. We started these gatherings on Jan 17th, 2006. Each week, one of us takes the responsibility of presenting a topic (in Persian, English or French) for about an hour in a subject s/he is intimately familiar with or has an expertise in... more...