in the last episode i wrote to you miss your mommy at least you got my name right alice oscar day god money a great artist yes i know hardly great oh you're great people just haven't seen it yet john please i say we start a fire we paint what we want we sell what we can an exhibition of our own this is no ordinary exhibition you're right it's a disaster go get out please put you together now do you think i should paint like money dash them off in a blink of an eye you will not make slanderous comments in the press about my private life surrendered your impressionist brush the colors lights this will be my finest painting yet to say that in the past we have had our disagreements would be an understatement here i am enough of a realist and i hope you are too to know that if we argue tonight it would create a very bad impression we are here tonight to salute a recipient of the legend yes but more important than that our tower of strength our friend edward money thank you for those kind words actually i can't agree with all of them it has always been my ambition not to repeat today what i did yesterday but to respond constantly to every fresh vision every new voice that's for the salon oh why ruin the evening yeah yes to go i now have the legend it have made my future once but now it's too late to make up for 20 years of failure no no failure never one thing you're not is a failure what pleases me more far more nice to see you here tonight my friends my dear dear friends our group was about to go its separate ways whether we liked it or not it wasn't going to be the same again to the future so did mane know what was wrong his misspent youth one brothel too many the disease crept up on him over the years manny was there from the beginning he never described himself as an impressionist but he was one of us so much a part of what we did an impressionist masterpiece he loved it at the salon it were money so tide was beginning to turn the tide was still against us as hard as i swam the current held me back i was living in the country with alice oshiday the wife of my old patron earnest with their six children and my two boys we brought you tea i owe over 2 000 francs in household expenses if i stop to eat now we all start tomorrow i made you talk to town now that's bribery i'm going to write to your husband alice i'm going to give him an ultimatum i think he should pay something towards your keep we'll let you go tongues are so loose they will wag themselves out well the streets of paris will be littered with tongues maybe i should paint something people will want to buy i wanted to capture the impression of a moment i was still at the beginning of my journey i say beginning a single life is not long enough to know a single moment cezanne was a pioneer searching for his own truth his one-man revolution would take impressionism somewhere very different his work was so savage and unfinished looking people were outraged the critics saved the worst of their venom for him paul suzanne is a genuine impressionist each one of his paintings more stupefying than the last no i will not have that stupid flying's pretty toned they compared one of my nudes to a call well that was fair enough how dare they call me an impressionist suzanne you're worse than dagar how can you say your style is nothing to what we've tried are you blind you are an inspiration to me and you you're a runway but but i am doing something completely different we all are no not like me not the best company on a good day with cezanne good days were rare i heard he didn't even like to be touched he found the world a hard place to be in so would you if you were consistently rejected by a world that was so blind it couldn't even see your work to try and to fail so continually and to be rejected in the end by those you love the most he loved zola very much he and emil zola had grown up together in exxon provence the inseparables they'd called them of course we know how famous zola became one of france's most popular writers you're not hunting for your supper anymore load up no we seldom caught anything quite the dirty bourgeois i can't help being a success you're gonna be the painter and you wrote me verses the inseparables what are you doing x do you still swim against the tide mainly when the people of x are stuck for a laugh they asked to see my paintings do you let them how are your parents still the most disgusting stinking people in the world do they know your secret the paternal authority spent his life trying to get his axe and accepted by the snobs of ex only to have his son and her father a child with a peasant he cut off my allowance we found out and then we'd be completely reliant on you so paul morning father where do you go all the time uh you're away for weeks well i am trying to clarify the relationship between color and form father do you think that is a valid occupation for a man approaching 40 at 40 i built up a successful business your mother and i had two children any sales no you're not earning a penny not yet or perhaps perhaps you're just not good enough perhaps i'm too good perhaps i'm a genius one may die with genius paul one eats with money so please let me write it off today i love you you love me how could he think that he has any hold over you and he doesn't pay a penny towards any of your keep he's choosing to drink his life away and if you let him he will drink hours away too don't we have any choices i married him i made my choice i took him as my husband well he isn't behaving don't divorce him claude you know that i'm a catholic so where does that leave us wedged between oshiday and the church of rome for the rest of our lives if i thought things were bad they were always worse for cezanne with his secret mistress and their secret child i've got so many porn tickets in my purse there's no room for any money that's just as well i'd love a lemonade pour i'd help if you sold a painting pool sit still your father's house that's why it's gonna tip over if it was really like that all the furniture would slide down one hand that's the composition you should tell your father if you think he's out is going to fall down one gust of wind and your inheritance will be a pile of rubble what you paint paul it's not what other people say it's more than that authors my eye is thinking too well tell it to stop i want honesty honesty is more important than what you see so send honesty to the butchers pull money i bet very well no i need to get myself in better shape any news quite out of touch here it's been raining again all this wind and rain it doesn't make the world look so attractive does it i've begun a few outdoor studies i'm afraid i might not be able to finish them oh are you in pain no no pain no i'm feeling much better reassure my friends weren't you the syphilis had advanced and his leg had been removed below the knee never spoke about the operation to anyone i saw it in his eyes those unfinished paintings she so wanted to return to it wasn't just the leg his work was being taken away from him bit by bit so much goes unsaid when will you be back depends on how much i paint right next sunday oh right when i get there it's my birthday i know but if you're not back for my birthday i am might go and spend it with my husband in paris why do you want to spend your birthday with usher day i don't want to spend my birthday alone please don't punish me for not behaving like a husband i would very much like to behave like a husband but as you never cease reminding me you are married to somebody else 60 francs i really shake your hand for this solar oh and please thank your wife for the rags she sent me always useful in the studio you really are a good solid plank yes well i'll take that in the manner it was meant why do you stay alex well that seems to me come to paris make me feel sick how can you give part a new beginning if you won't move on from where you started you just want me to paint society i want you to paint the world at least then you might sell i'm painting for myself not to amuse other people we both used to live in our own shadows isn't it about time you stepped out of yours do you remember when i first spoke to you at school well you were the only one that would speaking to you was banned because you were a hopeless dreamer if i am a hopeless dreamer now then let me work in silence don't throw me to the ruffians cezanne invited renoir and myself to visit him in provost with his vivid colors and intense light it was another world it's like a fairy tale ended don't you think honestly you won't know what to paint first oh i imagine i will so bright so much blue you'll need plenty of cerulean and ultramarine sell them use ocean miraculously mine it's quite good quality it's about the impression that it makes on me renoir not the impression that it makes on you suzanne says that he's been working hard sounds good to avoid the admiration of imbecile he sounds happy oh i don't think happy is on his palette so is this just linseed oil yes yes it is you plant your soup for this [ __ ] an imminently sensible idea suzanne oh let's hope no one dies in the next few months you could uh you put paul to bed if i move him he'll wake up so are you going to get involved in any more impressionist exhibitions is it impressionist anymore it's hard to know what we are these days i do a hijacked one then my dealer had to go that was a shambles i know any more exhibitions like that we'll end up with a public board of us the press still against us even if i had the money to frame them i wouldn't send them any of my pictures well i'm sure authors would agree sometimes he's only interested in lemonade do you have any lemonade no no they don't know i think i'm coming to the end of impressionism oh impressionism i want something more solid and durable my own way i'll be the only one left fed out of being out in the cold do you want a blanket i think i know i was talking figuratively oh well uh i'll put another log on the stove anyway so much daylight unbearable my eyes hurt terribly must have been in agony for years when i last saw him took him some peonies and he straight away started to paint them to go just when you start to find success for all of us successful manny was a great success first first download so this was 1883. 1883 um i'm sorry excuse me 1883 was also the first year we came here didn't know how much part of our lives it would become from the train i had seen this rambling farmhouse and we were lucky the rent was low enough that even we could afford it will you allow yourself to enjoy it instead of traveling away all the time i have to find new subjects we've got plenty of subjects here i've filled them too put your things in the main bedroom upstairs and where will you sleep i'll sleep downstairs cone the ceiling of the sphere an orange an apple ahead the world seems very complicated the trick is to make it simple why does it have to go there because of the biscuits to make a picture is to compose i'm going to astonish paris with an apple this arrived yesterday do you know who it's for it's a dress for madame suzanne uh must be for mother no no it's not another it's from a father to his daughter so let's piece together what we know here he's a letter and his daughter is a peasant girl pleasant girl what's your pk finishes please remember me to the boy yes paul he's 11. perhaps you'd be so good as to see that this gets to its intended reader thank you nice will go away and consider your intended allowance do you feel you had much common ground with cezanne as an impressionist we both chased nature he wanted to construct it and make it endure for me it was the moment and just that chasing the moment it will never come again alice and i had our home i knew she wanted me to stay there with her but i couldn't i was traveling always traveling trying to get closer to my subject i was a hunter not a painter learning to know my quarry some days the sea was so blue others so green i couldn't express its intensity its habits its passions lying in wait for a passing cloud punching on a perfect sky it was a daily battle in which i invariably came off the worst painting took me away for weeks at a time alice and i were divided by so much but without her nothing mattered not even painting the critics call my work the cult of ugliness painted by a madman with the shakes made by loading pistols with paint and firing at the canvas well you're an artist's artist monet called me a bricklayer who paints with a trowel i am rolling a rock uphill zola and either i keep on rolling it forever or i i let it roll back on me and crush me go on but the thing that keeps me going is the hope the belief that one day i will pick up that boulder with my hands and hurl it to the stars well what if posterity isn't the impartial judge we think it is oh don't say that suppose the artist paradise turns it out to be as non-existent as the catholics and that future generations persist on liking pretty pretty daubing better than real painting well then that's what my paintings if they're painted well that's like saying they'll be happy to be butchered as long as the cuts are neat i've started a new novel it's the 14th in my series about the ruga macarthur family it's about passion and creation i'll send you a copy where are you going to paint cezanne kept moving not knowing if he would ever reach his destination zola did what he did best writing about what he knew and the people he knew there was an error in the timetable could you find some employment for your fork how is the boy how is he uh he's very well he spends much of his time outdoors all right i should like to meet him would you mind not at all uh say good morning cool say good morning to your grandfather cezanne found inspiration in the shape of la montagna sant vitroir just outside aches like him it thirsted for sun yet fell back to earth he said he could occupy himself for months there without moving from the same place just by turning slightly to the left or the right he painted the mountain sixty times from different positions on different days absolutely no future in the impressionist artists but frankly he still keeps going i've actually drawn a likeness of cezanne that is too mild my dear suzanne doesn't think enough of public opinion he despises the most elementary things uh language dress hygiene and it's here it arrived but none of this would matter if only he had genius why didn't and his lack of genius here he suffered all the torments of the man condemned to roll a rock uphill forever or to be crushed when it rolls back on him that's me it could be anyone no i said that he has written about me there's an artist and his mistress who is also his model and their son what's wrong with that he calls the artist a splendid failure oh paul it's just a book how can a man talk sensibly that the art of painting he doesn't know anything about it how dare you say that an artist is finished because of one bad picture i have just received your novel which you were kind enough to send me i thank you for it and ask that you let me press your hand in memory of old and better times ever yours your friend from the past cezanne and zola were never to meet again what zola did in his novel which is called the masterpiece was to say that impressionism was a failure did you think it was based on suzanne we were all in there bits and pieces of our lives the worst thing was it broke suzanne's heart he had married authors by that time he married her not for love so that paul wouldn't have to suffer the stigma of having unmarried parents six months after the wedding his father died leaving suzanne and hid or tossed very generous income his worries about money like his feelings for all toss and his friendship with zola for things of the past you'll have to hurry or the carriage will leave with all your luggage you will come and stay you know i don't like paris we've got our own bathroom not that that would interest you i think that's always been the difference between us maybe poor that'd be good if you're not i've forgiven you already i wrote to my old impressionist friends we had to lay zola's masterpiece to rest we could not allow our names and many's memory to be acquainted with failure forever right there's something that i need to ask you both he wants us to buy ten of his paintings for a hundred francs i need twenty thousand franks and i'm not going to give you anything in return all that fresh air's gone to his head i'm thinking of purchasing manes olympia for the state and i need 20 000 francs what's in it for you sorry how much 20 000 right so money is thinking this is my chance to go down in history as the true leader of the impressionist movement i'm thinking about madame money i'll think about madame manney when and if she asked me to impressionism will get a boost also also monae will get a boost no yes come on start me off what do you say no runway no in the end renoir and dugout gave their contributions and i raised enough money to buy olympia in 1907 it was hung in the home of french art the louvre just for once i was closer to home i'd found some haystacks and started with two canvases one for gray and one for sunny alice the light's changing as the light changed on the haystack the whole subject was transformed and the light kept changing through the day through different days how can anyone say that a landscape even exists when it changes so constantly i'll have to be quick and i only worked on each canvas in its light seizing just the right moment at a stroke the light's fading or that moment will be lost you look like a conductor like a conductor holding a battle one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three 15 pictures of the same thing and they all sold in three days something had changed the world it seemed was beginning to see things my way a haystack a haystack was as much of a subject as a bars of flowers and if the finish wasn't smooth no comment it was the beginning of what became known as my series paintings i painted poplar trees along the bank of the river i went to rural to paint the cathedral i couldn't sleep for nightmares that the cathedral was coming down on top of me it was blue or pink or yellow i must have done 30 paintings there i thought i'd be in room or forever i think at least thought so too she'd stayed on and she'd only our situation really couldn't go on uh being together and not really being together and i'll tell you something else that happened oshida died alice i've decided i'm not going to work away anymore i know i should wait and i'm sorry at last there are no obstacles in our path and i don't mean to call ernest an obstacle i don't want to distress you so yes all my life i have traveled looking for something i thought that i would find it in seeing different things but it's here it's here it's in seeing the same things every day i shall grow sick of you will you we were married in july 1892 here in jivani i'd made enough money to buy the house alice loved it here oh i miss her early in 1910 she felt very weak leukemia in the spring there was a remission and i you cling to the hope my dear companion died on the 19th of may cling to your palate they told me hardly picked up a brush for three years so still cezanne struggled on alone the very last of us to be recognized by the world good morning it was a mess it's too many strands of no center it's escaping errant hand today i have to tell you that i'm extremely busy and will be for the rest of my life they're not very easy to find perhaps i don't want to be a phone every artist wants to be found what are you working on it's a painting please don't please don't shout at me amwas voila i'm an art dealer i want to present an exhibition of your work can't you think of a better way to waste your money people should see your work or your diet forgotten i'll organize it all i noticed your rather spectacular collection of japanese prints oh great admirer did they inspire you for this garden oh i was inspired there's no point in being inspired if you don't get any help the local people and artists are just a comedian who wore hats someone to use you know they tried to chop down the popplers they charged me a toad across the fields to paint dismantle the haystacks and when i wanted to make my pond what was here before a marsh alice i had been searching the world for what lay at my feet i stopped hunting nature and invited her in i diverted the stream and planted every known variety of water lily in the pond and they flourished i set up my easel in front of this body of water that contains in it all the elements of a universe changing constantly under our very eyes it's become an obsession after all his reservations cezanne did agree to vollar holding an exhibition of his work how many more have you got 152 152. i i i don't know if i can manage the walls what i mean at the gallery well you must i'll think of something i'm gonna be splendid that's not quite 152 the big ones are in the other room how rarely do you come across a true painter one who knows how to balance tones do you have any idea how impossible it is for me to make collectors even friends of the impressionists understand how precious suzanne's work is so still so alive and i want this stack ah the wild majesty of lestak the still life is mine what i saw it first i have my money out first still life i'm a city guy painting of irreproachable perfection must be pleased with what we sold at the exhibition uh yeah i prepared it myself so you won't fall so long as you stay still i'll be still as a statue as an apple please do not speak uh [ __ ] shut down you clumsy fool i told you to stay still that's enough for today no you wait the exhibition did zola come no all right the idiot only he had that i'm bowling paris over with my masterpieces forgive me if only cezanne had genius zola many critics thought that zola's book was about suzanne but time will pass and people will understand that zola's book was just a story i so wanted suzanne to join us and juvenile that day i was worried you'd be too shy to come celebrate i wanted him to know he did have admirers and true friends thanks for shaking my hands oh yes um when why is celebrating the birth of his second son it seems that family life is finally shooting him after all these years many of us here have been following you for years suzanne and we know why the younger artists look to you for guidance those who were so quick to condemn you will find themselves astonished a new era of art is opening well this is the promised land and they certainly won't let me in suzanne you have shown us the future what design achieved will be appreciated not too late for picasso and matisse and the others he influenced but too late for cezanne he laid the foundations for a new century for a new generation of modern painters he died must be 15 years ago wishing like all of us that he had more time we're not revolutionaries anymore we're a tradition can you believe it a room of our own at the great exhibition if i could have 20 more years to work i would create things that would endure at least for still alive to the greatest living painter to myself to myself to basil to many manny duggar struggled on into his eighties he found new passions sculpture and photography his work has endured and has become even more popular renoir was famous all around the world and fated as a society portraitist much to his delight he died last year december 1919 took part of my life with him it's nearly finished you seem to be getting closer and closer to your subject most likely what i'm attempting is beyond my part most likely i shall die without knowing monet has outlived them all now he is a hero one of the most successful painters who ever lived the father of impressionism we have his paintings and his garden the fleeting moments an impression of life so you