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Category:	Romantic Art
Name:	Camille Pissarro
Birth Year:	1830
Death Year:	1903
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Camille Pissarro SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a 19th century French impressionist painter. Known as the "Father of Impressionism", he painted rural French life, particularly landscapes and workers in the fields. He then 'retired' to Paris, where he is buried in Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. Pissarro was born at St. Thomas in the Danish Antilles, of Jewish parents of Spanish extraction. He went to Paris at the age of twenty, and, as a pupil of Corot, came into close touch with the Barbizon masters. Though at first he devoted himself to subjects of the kind which will ever be associated with the name of Millet, his interest was entirely absorbed by the landscape, and not by the figures. He subsequently fell under the spell of the rising impressionist movement and threw in his lot with Monet and his friends, who were at that time the butt of public ridicule. Like Monet, he made sunlight, and the effect of sunlight on the objects of nature, the chief subjects of his paintings, whether in the country or on the Paris boulevards. About 1885 he took up the laboriously scientific method of the pointillists, but after a few years of these experiments he returned to a broader and more attractive manner. Indeed, in the closing years of his life he produced some of his finest paintings, in which he set down with admirable truth the peculiar atmosphere and colour and teeming life of the boulevards, streets and bridges of Paris and Rouen. He died in Paris in 1903. Pissarro is represented in the Caillcbotte room at the Luxembourg, and in almost every collection of impressionist paintings. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Camille Pissarro and Encyclopedia Britannica (1911) ] The Great Books: Camille Pissarro Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Camille Pissarro. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Camille Pissarro. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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