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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:: 57684 Farm before the donkey
mk259 1858 Oil on canvas years 21.6 x 27.3 cm
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Painting ID:: 57685 Entering the village
mk259 1862 Oil on canvas years 19 x 30 cm
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Painting ID:: 57686 Outlook fields
mk259 1863 Oil on canvas years 49.6 x 74 cm
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Painting ID:: 57687 Chat village woman
mk259 1863 Oil on canvas years 40 x 52 cm
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Painting ID:: 57688 AT and T Building
mk259 1863 Oil on canvas years 40.7 x 32.4 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: | GARCIA, Pere | john masefield | Johannes Natus | William Hoare | Max, Gabriel Cornelius von |
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