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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:: 56958
French Grand Theater Square
mk250 Year in 1898. Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 92.7 cm. Luoshan Angeles Los Angeles at the National Arts Museum.
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Painting ID:: 57680
Storm
mk259 1854-1855 Oil on canvas 26 x 35 cm
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Painting ID:: 57681
Two women talking to the seaside
mk259 1856 Oil on canvas years 27.9 x 41 cm
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Painting ID:: 57682
Approach and sailing
mk259 1856 Oil on canvas years 35 x 53 cm
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Painting ID:: 57683
Small village on the road to talk
mk259 1856 Oil on canvas years 32.5 x 46 cm
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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: | Otter, Thomas | Thomas Hovenden | Nash, Paul | Israel Silvestre | Hugh Bolton Jones |
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