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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:: 60606
rural road
mk259 1875 Oil on canvas 39 x 55.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 60608
Metaponto quarries Schwarz
mk259 1875 Oil on canvas 58.2 x 72.5 cm
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Painting ID:: 60609
Schwartz of Schwartz Metaponto River
mk259 1876 Oil on canvas 53.5 x 64 cm
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Painting ID:: 60611
Metaponto pier Schwarz
mk259 1876 Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm
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Painting ID:: 60612
Still
mk259 1867 Oil on canvas 82 x 101cm
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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: | Henri Royer | Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann | Charles-Amable Lenoir | Jacob Philipp Hackert | Jerome B Thompson |
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