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Jacob-Abraham Camille Pissarro
(Jul. 10, 1830 Saint Thomas, West Indies - Nov. 13, 1903 Paris) French Oil Painting Artist Biography.
Camille Pissarro of all the Impressionists, was unique in his avoidance of river and seascapes, choosing instead to re-create the beauty of the landscapes and cityscape, both in structure and activity. He had the ability, like Monet, to capture a specific scene at a particular moment, 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.
Camille Pissarro was born to a French Jewish father and a Creole mother on the West Indies island of St. Thomas. Sent to boarding school in France, he returned after six years to work in his parents store. Pissarro abandoned this comfortable bourgeois existence at the age of twenty-two, when he left for Caracas, Venezuela with Danish painter Fritz Melbye, who became his first serious artistic influence.
After returning briefly to St. Thomas, at the insistence of his father, Pissarro refused to make his career in commerce and left for Paris in 1855, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Suisse and under a succession of masters, such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet. Corot is often considered Pissarro’s most important early influence, Pissarro listed himself as Corot’s pupil in the catalogues to the 1864 and 1865 Paris Salons. While Pissarro was accepted to show at the official Salon throughout the 1860s, in 1863 he participated with Edouard Manet, James Whistler and others in the historic Salon des Refusés. At the close of the decade, he moved to Louveciennes (near the Seine, twenty miles from Paris). Working in close proximity with Claude Monet, Pierre, Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, he began to revise his method of landscape painting, privileging the role of color in his expression of natural phenomena and employing smaller patches of paint. This artistic circle was dispersed by the Franco-Prussian War, which Pissarro fled by moving first to Brittany and then to London. There he met Paul Durand-Ruel, the Parisian dealer who would become an ardent supporter of Pissarro and his fellow Impressionists. Pissarro participated in his last official Salon in 1870. Eventually, news reached him that his house in Louveciennes had been used as a butchery by the invaders and 250 oil paintings stored there, used as duckboards in the muddy garden. This was a crushing blow to a man who was so passionate about his work.
The years after Pissarro’s return to France were seminal ones. He settled in Pontoise, where he received young artists seeking advice, including Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. He took part in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, Pissarro, along with Edgar Degas one of the Salon’s most passionate supporters. Pissarro was the only artist to show at all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions, the last of which took place in 1886.
Pissarro experienced somewhat of an artistic crisis in 1885. As he had done consistently throughout his career, he opened himself up to fresh influences by meeting with the younger generation, this time with Paul Signac and Georges Seurat, who were experimenting with a technique rooted in the scientific study of optics. He soon abandoned this technique and returned to the Impressionistic ideas. Camille Pissarro lived long enough to witness the start of the Impressionists fame and influence. He was revered by the Post-Impressionists, including Cézanne and Gauguin, who both referred to him toward the end of their own careers as their “master.” In the last years of his life, Pissarro experienced eye trouble, which forced him to abandon outdoor painting. He continued to work in his art studio until his death in Paris. He died blind in 1903.
Pissarro was an artist of diverse talents. He is known for his tolerance and unity that he inspired among his fellow Impressionists, even in the middle of bitter disputes. In return, they gave him respect and admiration for his principles as much as for his artwork. Pissarro's oil paintings are hanging in every major museum of modern art around the world and is one of the worlds artists.
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Hyde Park
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The Hermitage at Pontoise
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The Fair in Dieppe, Sunny Morning
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Washerwoman, Eragny sur Epte
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The Artist's Garden at Eragny
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