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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:: 57777 Duck pond
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 53.1 x 64.2 cm
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Painting ID:: 57778 Farmhouse
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 60.4 x 73.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 57779 Pang Schwarz housing plan
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 54 x 65.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 57780 Chat in a small way those who
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 60 x 73 cm
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Painting ID:: 57781 Snow housing
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 45.9 x 68.3 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: | Jan Matejko | Francis Parsons | Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat | Gillis Hafstrom | Benno Adam |
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