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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:: 57782 Snow scenery
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 40 x 51 cm
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Painting ID:: 57783 There are rock scenery
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 65.5 x 92.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 57786 Winter scenery
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 60 x 73 cm
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Painting ID:: 57788 Pang map of the iceberg Schwarz
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 61 x 81 cm
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Painting ID:: 57789 Pang plans Schwarz garden
mk259 1874 Oil on canvas years 54.3 x 65.3 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: | Victor Boucquet | Johan Barthold Jongkind | Giuseppe Maria Crespi | Hendrick Danckerts | Edvard Munch |
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