Camille Pissarro
Also known as Pissarro, Camille Jacob Pissaro, Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro, Camille-Abraham-Jacob Pissarro, C. Pissarro, Pissaro, Camille Pissaro, C. Pissaro
Danish-French painter (1830-1903)
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Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French painter who lived from 1830 to 1903 and is remembered as a key figure in the Impressionist movement. His work matters because he helped develop and popularize a revolutionary approach to painting that captured light and color in ways that challenged traditional artistic conventions of his time.
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- Born
- 1830
- Died
- 1903
- Works
- 58
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Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (/pɪˈsɑːroʊ/ piss-AR-oh; French: [kamij pisaʁo]; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-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.
In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality". Paul Cézanne said "he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord", and he was also one of Paul Gauguin's masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his work as "revolutionary", through his artistic portrayals of the "common man", as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without "artifice or grandeur".
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