|
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;
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 57810 Red roof
mk259 1877 Oil on canvas years 54.5 x 56.5 cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 57811 Pang plans spring Schwarz
mk259 1877 Oil on canvas years 65 x 81 cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 57812 Pang plans spring Schwarz
mk259 1878 Oil on canvas years 54.5 x 65.5 cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 57813 Farmland landscape
mk259 1878 Oil on canvas years 38 x 55 cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 57814 Scenic shore
mk259 1878 Oil on canvas years 54 x 65 cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prev Artist Next Artist
|
|
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: | Frans Francken II | Wilhelm Marstrand | Master of the Legend of St. Lucy | Jan van Bijlert | Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch |
|
|