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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:: 35558 The Young maid
mk103
1896
Oil on canvas
61x50
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Painting ID:: 35559 Self-Portrait
mk103
1903
Oil on canvas
41x33.3
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Painting ID:: 35886 Pick Apple
mk106
1888
Oil on canvas
60x73cm
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Painting ID:: 35888 The Woman on the side of Wall
mk106
1886-1888
Oil on canvas
65x81cm
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Painting ID:: 38811 Kitchen Garden at L-Hermitage
mk141
1874
National Gallery of Scotland
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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: | Jean-Baptiste Francois Desoria | Roll Alfed Philippe | John Russell | Claesz Aert | Jan Van Eyck |
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