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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:: 60598
Schwarz slopes Metaponto
mk259 1875 Oil on canvas 60 x 75 cm
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Painting ID:: 60599
Metaponto bridge Schwarz
mk259 1875 Oil on canvas 65.5 x 81.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 60601
de sac off St Anton
mk259 1875 Oil on canvas 52 x 81 cm
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Painting ID:: 60603
pond
mk259 1875 Oil on canvas 73.7 x 93 cm
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Painting ID:: 60605
Bust of Lucian Pissarro
mk259 Oil on canvas in 1875 of about 28.3 x 23.5 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: | Creator:Adolf Charlemagne. | Gustaf Brandelius | Francisco Miralles Y Galup | Anna Lea Merritt | Philips Wouwerman |
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