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Cezanne family home opens to the public as Aix-en-Provence fetes its famous former resident

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When Picasso purchased the Château de Vauvenargues, he famously told his Parisian dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, that he’d bought “Cezanne’s Sainte-Victoire”—not a painting by the artist he called “my only master”, but a bit of the actual rock. Family and friends are a second thematic highlight.

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Walter Gropius: the Visionary Master of Modernism

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Whether your knowledge of modernist design movements is comprehensive or relatively rookie, Bauhaus is the name synonymous with influence, accessibility and functionality. The founder of this artistic hive mind? Gropius standpoint at the time was that there was no real difference between the artist and the craftsman.