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Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Gustave Caillebotte
Mary Cassatt
Camille Pissarro
Berthe Morisot
Alfred Sisley
Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was born to a Jewish family in St. Thomas (today in the US Virgin Islands) and moved to Paris at the age of 12. He experimented with several styles, among them Pointillism, and was the only one to show at all eight Impressionist exhibitions (1874-1886).
This painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1868 and showcases the Impressionists' tendency to paint outdoors and examine the effects of natural light.
Bourgeoisie
A new upper-middle class
En Plein Air
Painting outdoors
Camille Pissarro, Jalais Hill, Pontoise, 1867, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 45 1/4 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Pissarro was an avid advocate for painting outdoors. The unique composition in this painting of houses blocked by trees is an Impressionist approach to paint exactly what you see.
En Plein Air
Painting outdoors
Camille Pissarro, Red roofs, corner of a village, winter, 1877, oil on canvas, 54.5 x 65.6 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
At some point, Pissarro broke away from the Impressionists and started experimenting with a style called Pointillism, where small dots of pure color are placed next to each other.
En Plein Air
Painting outdoors
Pointillism
A new painting technique
Camille Pissarro, Haymaking, Éragny, 1887, oil on canvas, 55 x 66 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Close to the end of his life, Pissarro came back to Impressionism. He depicted the Haussmanization of Paris and the new wide boulevards with loose brushwork.
Haussmann
A new city landscape
Industrial Revolution
New manufacturing processes
Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897, oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 32 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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