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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:: 35516
Apple picking at Eragny-sur-Epte
mk103
1888
Oil on canvas
61x74
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Painting ID:: 35517
L-lle Lacroix,Rouen
mk103
1887
11.6x15.7
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Painting ID:: 35518
L-lle Lacroix,Rouen
mk103
1888
Oil on canvas
46.7x55.9
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Painting ID:: 35519
Hamton Court Green
mk103
1891
Oil on canvas
54.3x73
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Painting ID:: 35520
Eragny
mk103
1890
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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: | Frederick Soulacrioix | Pieter Saenredam | Lemmen, Georges | Giorgio Vasari | Abraham Cooper |
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