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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:: 57848 Snow
mk259 1882 Oil on canvas years 46 x 55 cm
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Painting ID:: 57850 Hurrying to the landscape
mk259 1883 Oil on canvas years 71.3 x 92.7 cm
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Painting ID:: 57852 Rouen A Bend in the River
mk259 1883 Oil on canvas years 46.3 x 55.7 cm
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Painting ID:: 57853 the riparian
mk259 1884 Oil on canvas years 54 x 65 cm
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Painting ID:: 57854 Woman and goats
mk259 1884 Oil on canvas years 54 x 65 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: | Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin | Francois Stroobant | Abraham Hendrickz van Beyeren | Hendrick van balen | Meulener, Pieter |
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