Camille Pissarro

{"Id":2684,"Name":"Camille Pissarro","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EPISSARRO, CAMILLE (1831-1903)\u003C/strong\u003E, French painter, was born at St Thomas in the Danish Antilles, of Jewish parents of Spanish extraction. He went to Paris at the age of twenty, and, as a pupil of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=992\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECorot\u003C/a\u003E [1796-1875], came into close touch with the Barbizon masters. Though at first he devoted himself to subjects of the kind which will ever be associated with the name of \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=745\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMillet\u003C/a\u003E [1814-1875], his interest was entirely absorbed by the landscape, and not by the figures. He subsequently fell under the spell of the rising impressionist movement and threw in his lot with \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=810\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EMonet\u003C/a\u003E [1840-1926] and his friends, who were at that time the butt of public ridicule. Like Monet, 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. About 1885 he took up the laboriously scientific method of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003Epointillists\u003C/a\u003E, but after a few years of these experiments he returned to a broader and more attractive manner. Indeed, in the closing years of his life he produced some of his finest paintings, in which he set down with admirable truth the peculiar atmosphere and color and teeming life of the boulevards, streets and bridges of Paris and Rouen. He died in Paris in 1903.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPissarro is represented in the \u003Ca href=\u0022/asp/database/art.asp?aid=549\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ECaillebotte\u003C/a\u003E room at the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.collectluxembourg.com/museum/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003ELuxembourg\u003C/a\u003E, and in almost every collection of impressionist paintings. A number of his finest works are in the collection of \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=32081\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EM. Durand-Ruel\u003C/a\u003E in Paris.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://42.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PI/PISSARRO_CAMILLE.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":true,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":true,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":90}