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CAMILLE PISSARRO
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Photograph of
Camille Pissarro, c. 1900 |
- Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (1830
-1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the United States Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).
- His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
- Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
- He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.
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Camille Pissarro contributed to both Impressionism and the reactionary movement against it, Post-Impressionism. Much like other artists of the time, Pissarro’s work was mocked and rejected by critics. He and his friends, such as fellow greats Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne created a group that were exhibited at the Salon des Refusés (Exhibition of Rejects), as an alternative to the mainstream Salon de Paris.
During the latter part of his career, Pissarro created a series of oil paintings depicting French cityscapes at different times of the day and during various weather conditions.
(My Modern Met)
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