Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro poplars
Autumn Poplars, Eragny; Camille Pissarro On Google Art Project. Also high-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Denver Art Museum.
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro landscape
A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise by Camille Pissarro. One of my favorite landscapes by an under-appreciated master of Impressionism. The texture and brushwork are just beautiful. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on “Fullscreen” under the image and then the Download arrow for high-resolution Read More …
Pissarro’s views of the Boulevard Montmartre
After painting in the French countryside for several years in the late 1800’s, French Impressionist Camille Pissarro took up residence at the Grande Hotel de Russie in the Montmartre section of Paris. Durning his three month stay there from February through April, he produced a Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
Artists’ interpretations of Spring
A few paintings of Spring to mark the Vernal Equinox, and for those in the Southern Hemisphere, I’ve included Arthur Streeton’s Autumn (images above, bottom), to celebrate their oncoming season. The inclusion of JW Waterhouse’s Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (images above, second from Read More …