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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:: 57881
Afternoon sunshine
mk259 1887 Oil on canvas years 54.5 x 65 cm
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Painting ID:: 57882
Large walnut
mk259 1890 Oil on canvas years 15.5 x 23.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 57883
Egyptian Raney scenery
mk259 1890 Oil on canvas years 14.5 x 22 cm
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Painting ID:: 57884
The fall of the big walnut
mk259 1890 Oil on canvas years 38 x 46 cm
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Painting ID:: 57885
Large walnut
mk259 1890 Oil on canvas years 15.5 x 23.2 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: | Master John | Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn | Hildegard of Bingen | James Barry | William Sidney Mount |
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