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Biography of Camille PissaroName: Camille PissaroBirth Date: July 10, 1830 Death Date: November 12, 1903 Place of Birth: St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, United States Nationality: French Gender: Male Occupations: painter Camille Pissaro The French painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was one of the original impressionists. Although his work is generally less innovative than that of his major contemporaries, it is no less important in reflecting the new style.Camille Pissarro was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on July 10, 1830. His father, a Portuguese Jew, ran a general store. Although Pissarro attended school in Paris and demonstrated an exceptional talent for drawing, he returned to St. Thomas in 1847 to work in the family business. During the ensuing years his interest in art persisted, and in 1855 his parents finally yielded to his ambition to become a painter.Pissarro reached Paris in time to see the important World's Fair of 1855. He was particularly impressed by the landscapes of Camille Corot and other members of the Barbizon group, who had taken the first steps toward working directly from nature, and by the ambitious and forthright realism of Gustave …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…the revolutionary trend that he helped to originate.In 1892 there was a large retrospective of Pissarro's work, and he finally gained the international recognition he deserved. Characteristic paintings are Path through the Fields (1879), Landscape, Eragny (1895), and Place du Théâtre Français (1898). He died in Paris on Nov. 12, 1903. Further Reading Pissarro is the subject of critical analysis in these works by John Rewald: Camille Pissarro (1963), a monograph on the artist; C. Pissarro (1965), an exhibition catalog; and The History of Impressionism (1961), in which Pissarro's role in the development of impressionism is well documented.Adler, Kathleen, Camille Pissarro: a biography, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978, 1977.Cogniat, Raymond, Pissarro, New York: Crown Publishers, 1988, 1981.Lloyd, Christopher, Camille Pissarro, Geneva: Skira; New York: Rizzoli, 1981.Pissarro, Camille, Camille Pissarro, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989. Pissarro, Camille, Pissarro, New York: Crown Publishers, 1975.Shikes, Ralph E., Pissarro, his life and work, New York: Horizon Press, 1980. |