Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro was a representative French Impressionist painter of the late 19th century. He was active for many years, established the Impressionist technique, and had a great influence on those who came after him.

Camille Pissarro Biography

• Born May 10, 1830 on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas (then a Danish territory).
• He moved to Paris in 1855 and became acquainted with Corot and Millet.
• He began to develop an impressionist style in earnest in the late 1860s.
• After the 1870s, he developed close ties with Impressionist painters such as Monet, Renoir, and Cezanne.
• Died on November 13, 1903, at the age of 73, in the village of Neuville-sur-Lin near Paris.

Representative works

• The Harnham Hill (1888)
• Street in Rouen (1898)
• Snow Scene, Boulevard des Italiens (1897)
• Haystacks at Chailly (1865)

Pissarro studied under Corot and Millet, and initially focused on landscape paintings, but from the late 1860s he began to incorporate the bright colors and open compositions characteristic of Impressionism.

In his masterpiece, "Gentry Cordmacher's Hill," he uses linear brushstrokes to depict the transition of the landscape. His style, which focuses on the relationship between light and color, had a major influence on Impressionist painters.

He also established the Impressionist technique of selecting motifs that captured a moment in everyday life and the straw hat technique. He contributed to the development of Impressionism throughout his life and was a leader for the next generation.