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Biography of the painter Camille Pissarro
Today I continue with the publications dedicated this week to the most outstanding artists of impressionism and post-impressionism, a curious fact of impressionism is that this pictorial genre coincided with the birth of photography, at some point both sides of art competed for similarity with reality, and it is ironic that the style of realism itself was never more real than impressionism. Today is Camille Pissarro's turn. Come with me to learn more about this outstanding French painter.
He was born in France in the Virgin Islands in 1830, of a merchant Jewish family, with only 12 years old he moved to Paris where he studied and this allowed him to grow quickly with his studies, and to become impregnated with the cultural movement, when he finishes his studies he returns to the Tomas Islands where his family opposed the artistic formation of the young Pissarro who had already been irradiated by all the movement of Paris, and how not to be influenced if what is breathed until today is art in that city. Even so, the young Pissarro did not give up his ideas of making art so he decided to make sketches looking for as a guide the landscapes of the island where he lived.
Camille Pissarro is considered today as one of the founding fathers of the impressionist movement, a movement that was born in France and then expanded worldwide. He stood out for being the oldest of all the painters, and of all the members of the great impressionist group is the only one who organized and participated in each of the exhibitions they held, Camille Pissarro became the promoter number 1 of the movement that had to fight to take over the art scene of the time that came out of a stagnant period of neo-classicalism and maintain for 500 years the perspective and purely academic art as the only form of expression.
In 1852 he was already painting but he began to work with a painter called Fritz Melbyl who hired him and they go on a trip to Caracas Venezuela where together with the painter he makes a series of landscape paintings and some representations of the culture of the Venezuelan capital. Then he returns to Europe and lives in Switzerland where he finally studies arts in fine arts school, then returns to Paris where he meets Monet, Cézanne and Guillaumin, all gathered in the famous Café Guerbois where they began the gatherings and devised the whole concept of what we call impressionist art today.
The group was born after going on a trip to England where it meets Monet and decide to paint together and do some painting studies, when both return to France they decide to bring together the group formed by Manet, Sisley, Guillaumin, Monet, Renoir and all agree that they are doing a similar style so they decide to formalize the genre by calling it impressionism.
Most of the themes that Camille Pissarro chose to paint are the maritime scenarios linked to his childhood and stay in virgin islands, as well as things related to rural life as the farmer in his work, in addition to a variety of naturalistic landscapes showing a large amount of fauna, flora, and trees.
At the end of his career, he began to practice pointillism, and this meant a radical change in his usual color palette where he used pastel colors replaced by verses and greys, which gave more power to his painting. But everything began to decline in the artist's career when he began to have problems in one of his eyes. In 1903 he was in poor health and died in the city of Paris.
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