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Camille Pissarro
Caribbean-born French Pointillist/Impressionist Painter, ca.1830-1903
.Painter and printmaker. He was the only painter to exhibit in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886, and he is often regarded as the 'father' of the movement. He was by no means narrow in outlook, however, and throughout his life remained as radical in artistic matters as he was in politics. Thad?e Natanson wrote in 1948: 'Nothing of novelty or of excellence appeared that Pissarro had not been among the first, if not the very first, to discern and to defend.' The significance of Pissarro's work is in the balance maintained between tradition and the avant-garde. Octave Mirbeau commented: 'M. Camille Pissarro has shown himself to be a revolutionary by renewing the art of painting in a purely working sense;
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Painting ID:: 33228
Women herb gathering from Work in the field
mk85
1893
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Painting ID:: 33229
Weeder from Work in the field
mk85
1893
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Painting ID:: 33941
Landscape at Chaponval
mk87
1880
Oil on canvas
54.5x65cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Painting ID:: 33957
Red Roofs
mk87
1877
Oil on canvas
54.4x65.6cm
Paris,Musee d'Orsay
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Painting ID:: 33958
The Old Marketplace in Rouen and the Rue de l-Epicerie
mk87
1898
Oil on canvas
81x65cm
New York,The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Camille Pissarro
Caribbean-born French Pointillist/Impressionist Painter, ca.1830-1903
.Painter and printmaker. He was the only painter to exhibit in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions held between 1874 and 1886, and he is often regarded as the 'father' of the movement. He was by no means narrow in outlook, however, and throughout his life remained as radical in artistic matters as he was in politics. Thad?e Natanson wrote in 1948: 'Nothing of novelty or of excellence appeared that Pissarro had not been among the first, if not the very first, to discern and to defend.' The significance of Pissarro's work is in the balance maintained between tradition and the avant-garde. Octave Mirbeau commented: 'M. Camille Pissarro has shown himself to be a revolutionary by renewing the art of painting in a purely working sense;
. Related Artists to Camille Pissarro: | Emile Vernon | Rachel Ruysch | Thomas Shotter Boys | Salvatore Postiglione | Cerano |
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