Search results for: “Camille Pissarro”
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Eye Candy for Today: Near Sydenham Hill, Camille Pissarro
Near Sydenham Hill, Camille Pissarro; oil on canvas, roughy 17 x 21 inches (43 x 53 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Kimbell Art Museum. Camille Pissarro is one of my favorites among the original French Impressionist painters. I love the sense…
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Camille Pissarro: Impressions of City and Country
It has been suggested that the Impressionists painted as they did partly because they deliberately abandoned their academic training before it was complete, and were therefore incapable of painting “realistically”; as though they were the punk rockers of their day, eschewing the facile technique of their predecessors for the “honesty” of making art without the…
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Camille Pissarro
It’s remarkable how much of our picture of history is formed by generalized impressions. There is an impression, for example, that Claude Monet was the central figure around which the revolutionary painting style of French Impressionism formed; as it crystalized out of the pioneering Realism of Gustav Courbetand the incisive directness of Camille Corot and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre, Spring
Boulevard Montmartre, Spring; Camille Pissarro Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadablve version on Wikimedia Commons. Google’s listing indicates the original is in the collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; but I can’t find it in their online database. This is one of the remarkable series of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Autumn, Poplars, Éragny
Autumn, Poplars, Eragny; Camille Pissarro Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Denver Art Museum which also has a zoomable version (and, oddly, has another, somewhat different looking version of the image). This is Pissarro at the height of his classically Impressionist style. The…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre in Winter
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on their site. This is part of a remarkable series of views of two of the grand boulevards of Paris, painted from a hotel room over the period of three months…