Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh, French: [kamij pisaʁo]; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born upon the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but next in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from good forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He unconventional studied and worked next door to Georges Seurat and Paul Signac taking into consideration he took upon the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.
In 1873 he helped support a collective bureau of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the “pivotal” figure in holding the intervention together and encouraging the supplementary members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “dean of the Impressionist painters”, not forlorn because he was the oldest of the group, but also “by virtue of his good judgment and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality”.Paul Cézanne said “he was a daddy for me. A man to consult and a Tiny like the great Lord”, and he was in addition to one of Paul Gauguin’s masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his doing as “revolutionary”, through his artistic portrayals of the “common man”, as Pissarro insisted upon painting individuals in natural settings without “artifice or grandeur”.
Pissarro is the only artiste to have shown his take steps at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He “acted as a dad figure not single-handedly to the Impressionists” but to anything four of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.
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