Thursday, November 20, 2014

Camille Pissarro French Impressionist painter



Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) - the oldest of the Impressionists. Born in a family of merchant Hardware in the port city on the small owned Danish island of St. Thomas Antilles archipelago. In 1841, eleven parents sent Camille study in France), in the College Pass. When he returned, he began working in his father's shop in the port. Five years of dutiful son engaged unloved business, barely snatching time pas drawing.

In the early 1850s, he became friends with the Danish artist Melba, under his influence, threw the hated trade and in 1852 went with him to the capital of Venezuela, Caracas. In 1854, Pissarro returned to St. Thomas, but a year later went to France, now forever. There he entered the School of Fine Arts. At its formation as an artist greatly influenced by Courbet and Corot.

Boulevard Montmartre - Spring. (1897)


Acquainted with Monet and his work, he had borrowed from him the principle of decomposition of color. All the skills that the artist took from his teachers, Pissarro was able to use in the works.

Starting in 1866 his palette lightens more, he learned to write with enthusiasm air environment permeated with sunlight; However, he began to write a spatula, conveying a sense of form more "luminous" strokes. As a result, he created his own firm and confident artistic handwriting.
Camille Pissarro: Antilian Landscape, St. Thomas. (1856)


The Knocke Windmill, Belgium. (1894-1902)


Sunset at Sent Charlez. Eragny. 1891

Young Peasant at Her Toilette. (1888)


Peasant Women Planting Stakes. (1891)


Pissarro Camille Young Flemish maid Sun


The Garden at Pontoise. (1877)


Pissaro Camille The shepherdess Sun


Bather in the Woods. (1985)


La Ronde. (1894)


Bathers Seated on the Banks of a River. (1901)


Apple Pickers, Eragny. 1888

Windmill at Knocke, Belgium. (1894)

Harvest at Eragny. (1901)


A Fair at lHermitage near Pontoise. (1878)


The Hermitage at Pontoise. (1874)

Landscape near Pontoise


Jeanne Reading. (1899)


Cowherd, Pontoise. (1880)


Haymaking in Eragny. (1901)


Neaufles-Sant-Martin, near Gisors. (1885)


View Across Stamford Brook Common. (1897)


The Market. (1883)


Seated Peasant. (1892)


Portrait of Eugene Murer. (1878)

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