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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:: 35511
The Little country maid
mk103
1882
Oil on canvas
63.5x53
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Painting ID:: 35512
Peasants resting
mk103
1881
Oil on canvas
81x65.4
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Painting ID:: 35513
The artist-s palette with a landscape
mk103
c.1878
Oil on canvas
24.1x34.6
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Painting ID:: 35514
Peasants-house,Eragny
mk103
1887
Oil on canvas
59x71.7
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Painting ID:: 35515
Ploughing at Eragny
mk103
c.1886
Oil on panel
15.6x23.5
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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: | Alexander Mark Rossi | Domingo Garcia y Vasquez | Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans | Jones, Francis Coates | Thomas Hill |
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