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Google Doodle marks painter Cezanne's birthday


New Delhi: Staying with its custom of marking important milestones in history with its imaginative doodles, Google on Wednesday had on its homepage a still life of post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne to commemorate his 172nd birthday.
Cezanne (January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906) was a French artist whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
Cezanne formed the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. His work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, tone, composition and draftsmanship.
Cezanne was described as a visionary who was ahead of his time and with its new doodle, Google hopes to introduce his works to the present generation. The doodle links to the search pages on Cezanne.
The new doodle, like all others, also spells out the Google logo, albeit rather obscurely.
Google doodles have gained immense popularity over the past few years and the Google team has put out commemorative doodles on events ranging from news events, civic milestones, birthdays, death anniversaries and important dates in history.
Doodles have celebrated the Fourth of July, the Olympics, and John Lennon's 70th birthday. The Google team put up an elaborate holiday doodle for Christmas last year that took five artists about 250 hours to make.
Google estimates it has created more than 900 doodles since 1998, with 270 of them running in 2010. Some appear globally, and others are tailored for local markets outside the US, such as Kenya Independence Day.

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