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Camille Pissarro
Pissarro was a French-Danish artist who was born in 1830. He
studied the works of Courbet and Corot and his work became
Impressionism. Pissarro’s father own a hardware store and when he
turned 17 he wanted him to join the business. Camille spent most of
his holidays and breaks practicing art. At the age of 21 he met
another artist called Fritz Melbye. Melbye inspired Pissarro to change
his career and study art full time. Pissarro and Melbye moved to
Caracas for two years, here he creating hundreds of drawings and
sketches, his subject matter ranged from landscapes and villages to
people.
Later in his life Pissarro went on to study along side Seurat and
Signac. This is went his style changed from Post-Impressionism to
Neo-Impressionism. The Impressionist work was not considered to
be finished art therefore there work was not able to be exhibited in
the Paris Salon. This lead to the creating the own exhibition, called
the Impressionist exhibition. Pissarro is well know for leading and
encouraging other Impressionist artists and he was the only one to
exhibit in all eight Impressionist exhibitions.
Hay harvest at Eragny, 1901,
Oil on Canvas.