The style may sound odd, but it opened up other painters to further toy with reality. He also played with perspective, sometimes showing two views in the same painting. Trees might be cylinders fruit may look like simple spheres. He boiled down objects into their core geometric shapes. So, what was so special about Paul Cézanne? His art is far from photo realistic, but that was the point. This marks the first time the company started with oil paints before going digital, according to Search Engine Land. It lets us take on the avatar of the moustachioed engineer as we walk through a simple pixel landscape. Google's master doodlers actually created a real oil painting. The doodle is a lovingly crafted nod to Lawson's career, on what would be his 82nd birthday.

The doodle was made in celebration of Gerald Jerry Lawson’s 82nd birthday (the inventor of video game cartridges).

In just the past 12 months, there was the charming Norman Rockwell homage, the lively Frida Kahlo portrait, and even the work of 9-year-old artist Makenzie Melton. A recent Google Doodle lets users create their own video game from scratch. The French painter, whose work forever changed modern art, would have turned 172 today. Google handed over its homepage today for a loving tribute to Paul Cézanne.

Today's doodle