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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:: 57898 Department of green headscarf woman
mk259 1893 Oil on canvas years 65.5 x 54.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 57897 Planting scenes
mk259 1891 Oil on canvas years 55 x 46 cm
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Painting ID:: 57899 Flooding
mk259 1893 Oil on canvas years 65 x 64.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 57900 Autumn morning, a large walnut
mk259 1893 Oil on canvas years 53.3 x 64.8 cm
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Painting ID:: 57901 Sunsets
mk259 1893 Oil on canvas years 38 x 46 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: | Nils Kreuger | Amaury-Duval, Eugene-Emmanuel | Lockey, Rowland | Robert Dampier | William Rothenstein |
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