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Artist: Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)
Nationality: French
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Pissarro was born in 1830 in St. Thomas, the West Indies. In 1841 he was sent to school in Paris where he created his first drawings. By 1847 he returned to St. Thomas to work for his father which he did not like and consequently ran away to Caracas, Venezuela, for 2 years to paint. His first pictures were West Indian scenes in an - Oriental Style -. In 1855 his father finally allowed him to study art in Paris. He became friends with Monet, Cezanne and Guillaumin and played a key role in the development of Impressionism. He was the only artist to show in all 8 of the Impressionist exhibitions. For him Impressionism was a movement which allowed artistic emancipation. He believed strongly in free thought and speech. Before he introduced figures into his work in 1880, giving them a more decorative character, his paintings resembled most those of Monet. Later on Pissarro was attracted to Seurat's Pointillism and saw it as a logical development of Impressionism. He adopted Seurat's techniques but with limited success. Camille Pissarro was born in the West Indies, but studied in Paris under Corot. H also studied with Monet at the Academie Suisse, who encouraged him to join the Impressionists. Both Monet and Pissarro lived in London from 1870 to 1871 to avoid the Franco-Prussian War. From 1885-1888, Pissarro explored the divisionism technique of Neoimpressionist, Seurat, before returning to his original style. Confined indoors because of his failing eyesight, Pissarro painted views of Rouen and Paris from 1896 to his death.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale: Camille Pissarro and his Descendants
The exhibition will feature 157 works including significant pieces by Camille Pissarro as well as works created by his five sons, three grandchildren and his great-granddaughter. This exhibition follows the same concept as Camille Pis...
Musee du Quebec: Degas & Pissarro, Alchemy of an Encounter
Degas & Pissarro, Alchemy of an Encounter constitutes a unique opportunity for discovering another facet of the talent of these two great artists who, of all Impressionists, were th...
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale: IMPRESSIONISM TO THE PRESENT: CAMILLE PISSARRO AND HIS DESCENDANTS
The Pissarro exhibition will feature 156 works including significant pieces by Camille Pissarro, known as the Father of Impressionism, and works created by his sons, grandchildren and great-granddaughter. Museum visitors will have a rare op...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints
In the 19th century, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro continued to experiment with intaglio techniques but also used the new medium of lithography. Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and Bonnard from the 1890s — the great era of color lith...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Impressionist Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada
The first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 exploded like a bombshell in the complacent world of French academic art. The young artists who participated in this show and the seven exhibitions that followed, had abandoned historical subje...
Cincinnati Art Museum: European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
This exhibition, which make its world premiere at the CAM, will travel the United States while the
Frick Art and Historical Center: Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890s
Late 19th-century Parisian painters experimented freely with new developments in printmaking and worked closely with skillful printmakers and publishers to produce some of the ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures
A longtime supporter of the arts in New York, Janice Levin was an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1993 until her death in 2001. A number of significant works from the collection have been bequeathed to American museums, inc...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac
Flourishing from 1886 to 1906, the artists who worked in this avant-garde style came to be called Neo-Impressionists. The term was coined by art critic Félix F...
University Art Museum and Gallery: Eternity and a Moment: Paintings by Lam Man-kong
Since 1990 Lam has been living in Paris, where he studied in the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-arts from 1990 to 1992. He spent one year copying the great masters paintings at the Musée Louvre. He finds inspiration in Impressionist artist...
Bergen Art Museum: Visions of Nature from Le Petit Palais in Paris
The exhibition will take the visitor on a journey through some of the most outstanding pieces of European landscape painting from the seventeenth through the beginning of the twentieth century. The viewer will have an unique opportunity to take a...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: From Woodblocks to Comics: The Japanese Impression
From classical Chinese painters Japanese artists borrowed the flat perspective that became a hallmark of their own art. In their ukiyo-e printmaking they developed their own delicate and graceful style that captured the work and pleasures of ev...
Hong Kong Museum of Art: Impressionism: Treasures from the National Collection of France
Interpreting impression as an impression at a glance or frozen in time, these artists turned their back on traditional subjects - historical events, mythology and religious themes - and instead recorded the cityscapes, daily life as well as char...
Van Gogh Museum: Expansion and Renovation of the Van Gogh Museum
The modernized Van Gogh Museum After the re-opening in June 1999, the modernized Rietveld building will be entirely devoted to paintings of Van Gogh and the permanent coll...
National Gallery of Canada: Monet, Renoir, and the Impressionist Landscape
The Impressionists' profound influence on French landscape painting is examined as the exhibition concludes with a look at works by other artists in th...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Queensland Art Gallery Director, Mr Doug Hall said The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection is a celebration of the Gallery's proud history of touring the State's col...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard
Van Gogh actively participated in discussing and debating new ideas, which ultimately became the shape and substance of modern art in Europe. He identified these artists as the painters of the petit boulevard, a term that reflected their desire...
Kimbell Art Museum: Gauguin and Impressionism
The exhibition and its scholarly catalogue deal with the full range of the artist’s participation in the Impressionist movement: the paintings he submitted to the Impressionist exhibitions, the ways in which his extensive private collection inspi...
Royal Academy of Arts: Ingres to Matisse: Masterpieces of French Painting
Opening with work by Ingres and Delacroix and closing with the paintings of Picasso and Matisse, the exhibition will provide a broad overview of French painting from the early nineteenth-century to the 1930s. Ingres to Matisse ...
Seattle Art Museum: Impressionism Paintings Collected by European Museums
Impressionism will provide an overview of the revolutionary 19th-century art movement, while also offering new insights into Impressionism’s early ...
L.A. County Museum of Art: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art

A major part of LACMA's mission is to bring great art to our region, said Graham W. J. Beal, the museum's director. We are delighted to share a special selection of the National Gallery’s renowned French paintings with the people of Los Angeles....
Frick Collection: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art
While the collection of the Toledo Museum is considered encyclopedic, the works included in the exhibition will emphasize the period from the early Italian Renaissance to late nineteenth-century France. The selection will notably complement the h...
Van Gogh Museum: Jean-François Millet: Drawings
Millet was a talented draughtsman. Although he employed an academic technique, in a certain sense one can say he reinvented it: by depicting his models in their natural surroundings, by scrupulously reproducing the effects of light, and by care...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Light: The Industrial Age 1750-1900, Art and Science, Technology and Society
Light! was organized in partnership with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, where it was previously on view. Pittsburgh is the only other venue for this remarkable exhibition. The exhibition is sponsored by Bayer ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the Nineteenth Century
During the 19th century, in both European and American art, the landscape emerged as a subject of profound significance. As industry flourished, many artists turned to nature as an escape. Nature Sublime will examine the ways that the major artist...
Baltimore Museum of Art: Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris
“This is an exciting opportunity to showcase these well-known paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner alongside works from the BMA’s outstanding collection,” said BMA Director Doreen Bolger. Tanner spent most of his career as an expatriate in Paris...

Further Artwork and Information:

Camille Pissarro Online
WebMuseum: Pissarro, Camille
Camille Pissarro in the Caribbean - Drawings from the Collection at Olana
Camille Pissarro - Olgas Gallery
Camille Pissarro ~ The Artist
Dossier Pissarro
Camille Pissarro
Yahoo! Directory Painters > Camille Pissarro
Wikipedia: Camille Pissarro
Pissarro, Camille : 1830 - 1903 - Impressionism, painting, sculpture, drawing, Absolutearts.com

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