Camille Pissarro: Drawings E-Book

Sarah Williams

• Herausgeber: Sarah Williams
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing." Camille Pissarro Camille Pissarro was French artist, the only painter to show in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886, and he is frequently considered as the "father" of the Impressionist movement. Throughout his life Pissarro remained as radical in artistic matters as he was in politics. The significance of Pissarro's work is in the sense of balance maintained between the conventional and the avant-garde. Pissarro's warmth and generosity made him an attractive to many French painters. He was especially favorites as teacher and friend to Gauguin, Cezanne, and Mary Cassatt. His son Lucien was also his pupil. This book represents Camille Pissarro in somewhat different from the traditional light - not as a painter with extraordinary sense of color, but as a draftsman with an incredible sense of forms and movement.

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Camille Pissarro:Drawings

BySarah Williams

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Foreword

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."

Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro was French artist, the only painter to show in all eight of the Impressionist exhibitions between 1874 and 1886, and he is frequently considered as the "father" of the Impressionist movement. Throughout his life Pissarro remained as radical in artistic matters as he was in politics. The significance of Pissarro's work is in the sense of balance maintained between the conventional and the avant-garde.

In Paris from 1855, he came under the influence of Corot and the Barbizon school. Later he allied himself with the Impressionists.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, having only Danish nationality and being unable to join the army, he moved his family to Norwood, then a village on the edge of London. However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called Impressionism, did not do well. In London, Pissarro met the Paris art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel who became the dealer helping sell his art for most of his life. Durand-Ruel put him in touch with Monet who was likewise in London during this period. They both viewed the work of British landscape artists Constable and Turner.

After the war he returned to Paris and soon reestablished his friendships with the other Impressionist artists of his earlier group, including Cezanne, Monet, Manet, Renoir, and Degas.

In 1884 he experimented with the theories of color devised by Seurat. Abandoning divisionism in the 1890s, he reverted to a freer, more vital interpretation of nature. It was not until then that his works began to be popular. Pissarro's warmth and generosity made him an endearing figure to many French painters. He was especially beloved as teacher and friend to Gauguin, Cezanne, and Cassatt. His son Lucien was also his pupil.

Drawings

Young woman, hands clasped behind his back

1888,pastel and charcoal on paper laid down on card, 55.9 x 40.6 cm

Portrait of Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro

1981, drawing,18.1x20 cm

Shepherd and sheeps, Eragny

1889, pastel and charcoal on paper, 23.5 x 30.3 cm

From 1889 to 1902, Pissarro produced several works depicting the theme of a shepherd herding his flock, including the present pastel, two gouaches, two fan decorations and one drawing. The present work is a direct study for the oil painting Paysage avec troupeau de moutons.