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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: | Aleksei Matveev | R. Talbot Kelly | Jan Rosen | Nicolas-Antoine Taunay | Victor DeGrailly |
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