[smygo] Pissarro Stayed Poor, Radical, & Influential

[Dan Clore]

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The Indianapolis Star

Camille Pissarro stayed poor, radical, influential

Staff Report
November 22, 2002

About Camille PissarroCamille Pissarro was born in 1830 on
the island of St. Thomas and moved to France as a young man
to pursue a career as an artist. Striking up friendships
with Paul Cezanne and Claude Monet, he joined them in the
creation of the Impressionist movement, becoming the only
painter to show his work in all eight of the Impressionist
exhibitions held from 1874 to 1886.

A political radical who supported socialism and anarchism,
he produced an album of anarchist drawings in 1889. At the
same time, he embraced the revolutionary Neo-Impressionist
movement in the mid-1880s, championing its leader, Georges
Seurat. By the early 1890s, however, Pissarro had discarded
Neo-Impressionism's methodical approach to painting,
returning to a looser style that allowed him to paint more
freely.

Though always teetering on the edge of poverty, Pissarro
managed to raise a family (his son Lucien became a
well-known artist, too) and establish a reputation as one of
France's most influential 19th-century painters. He
continued painting until his death in Paris in 1903.

Sources: "The Camille Pissarro Home Page" on the World Wide
Web, and "The Grove Dictionary of Art"

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