Camille Pissarro

The French painter and graphic artist Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830 in Charlotte Amelie on the Danish Antilles island of Saint Thomas (today Virgin Islands). Camille Pissarro completed his schooling in France, where he attended the Savary boarding house near Paris from 1841-1847; his grandparents also lived there. The Savary family is very open to art, and so one piece of advice is, "Draw from nature as much as you can during the vacations." Camille Pissarro would go down in art history as one of the most important representatives and co-founders of French Impressionism. He was a passionate advocate of this new style of art at the dawn of modernism, an important stimulus and committed friend, and a kind of father figure to his younger artist colleagues, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Arman Guillaumin, Edgar Degas, Paul Signac, Georges Seurat and many others. Camille Pissarro was the only artist to participate in all eight Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886. Landscape painting en plein air at the beginning of Impressionism. In order to escape his intended life as a clerk in his parents' goods trade, Camille Pissarro accompanied the Danish painter Fritz Melbye on a painting trip through South America in the years 1851-1854 and finally decided on a life as a painter. From 1855 he lived in France, where he came into contact with the two landscape painters and early French representatives of plein air painting, Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet. He spends the summers painting in Montmorency with the Danish landscape painter David Jacobsen. In 1859 Camille married Pissarro and lived with his soon growing family in the countryside near Paris, but he was not a civilized loner like Paul Cézanne. With his artist colleagues in and around Paris, Camille Pissarro strives in his works unflinchingly and for many years without recognition for the realization of the new direction of painting. Impressionist of the first hour. The interest of the Impressionists in painting in front of the motif outdoors is to reproduce the momentary, fleeting impression in front of nature in a bright, light color palette and with loose brushstrokes, for which the painters are initially ridiculed by critics and the public. Together with other painters rejected by the official Paris Salon who represented this new and anti-academic style of painting, Camille Pissarro founded the "Societé anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs" in 1874, and the first exhibition of what were subsequently called the Impressionists (from the French impression) took place in Paris in April 1974. In 1885, Camille Pissarro met the painters Paul Signac and Georges Seurat, who were much younger. He followed their theoretical ideas of Neo-Impressionism and Pointillism, but he did not implement them as radically as they did in his works. Coloristic masterpieces of early landscapes and city views in his late work. From the mid-1880s, chronic eye inflammation forced Camille Pissarro to limit painting in the open air. He kept looking for vantage points by the window, and the series of city views of Rouen, Dieppe, Paris and elsewhere, of the great boulevards and the Tuileries, so important in Camille Pissarro's masterly late work, came into being. In these city views, Camille Pissarro devoted himself in a unique and masterful painting style to the atmospheric phenomena in the city, the momentary state known as "effect" under the influence of weather, lighting and movement. Camille Pissarro died in Paris on November 13, 1903.