Answer:
Paul Cezanne
Step-by-step explanation:
Pablo Picasso considered Cezanne a "hovering mother", Henri Matisse as a "father to us all". Cezanne's reduction of the visible world into basic and underlying forms, the faceted brushstrokes that seem to reconstruct nature through purely pictorial forms, fracture, and flattening of space - can all be seen as the beginning of modern art.