Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands). His importance resides in his contributions to the Impressionist movements. He studied from great forerunners including Gustave Courbet and 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.
Pissarro is the only artist to have shown in all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886. He acted as a father-figure, not only to the Impressionists, but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
For a really good selection of his paintings, see the ones around halfway down the page http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2016/08/camille-pissarro-part-10.html
http://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2016/07/camille-pissarro-part-8.html
Jesse, I didn't know you were such an art connoisseur. ;)
ReplyDeleteyes, thank you! I just don't have the time for another website. I love Piranesi, Mucha, Alma Ta Dema, and Maxfield Parrish the most. PLus Rockwell, Remington, etc. I could go on... but those are some amazing artists I've went bonkers for. Damn shame that 4 years of art class in high school in the 80s without the internet, and our teacher, though gifted and wonderful, had no room in the class schedule for art appreciation, she had to keep up working at our art instead. Though, I'd have been a much different art teacher, I'd have never given much time to teaching kids how to do art, rather, I'd have shown them all the impressive art that HAS been done in thousands of years of the human race, from all continents. I even adore cave paintings.
Deletehere in St Thomas his family home still exists and is marked by a plaque on Main St. and a small gallery occupies a room upstairs.
ReplyDeleteHis Caribbean paintings are occasionally reproduced in excellent prints, a few books have been written of his time here, a world famous retrospective was shown here years ago and the USVI government owns a few original Pissaro art works.
A local luminary in our history.
That's FANTASTIC! Great to hear that an artist is appreciated long after they've moved on, by the places and towns they lived in and worked in. His work was so varied, for so many decades, and I simply try to focus on just the vehicular with one landscape to show it's beauty. I wasn't even going to post about him, until I came across the photo of him with the wheeled easel! That sealed it, anyone with a cool wheeled object I've never posted before gets a feature post!
DeleteBrilliant! Pisarro if my favorite impressionist of the whole talented lot.
ReplyDeletewow! That's cool! I never knew of him until yesterday! How long ago did you learn of him, and is there a particular painting of his that is your favorite?
DeleteThird painting down is Pont-Neuf in Paris which crosses the Seine River. They used that bridge in The Bourne Identity to name one that it was filmed. Loved the car chase in that picture. It's interesting to see what it looked like 150 years ago.
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