Art

Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903)

“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for”? (Camille Pissarro)

Pissarro was born in 1830 in St. Thomas, the West Indies. In 1841 he was sent to school in Paris where he created his first drawings. By 1847 he returned to St. Thomas to work for his father which he did not like and consequently ran away to Caracas, Venezuela, for 2 years to paint. His first pictures were West Indian scenes in an – Oriental Style -. In 1855 his father finally allowed him to study art in Paris. He became friends with Monet, Cezanne and Guillaumin and played a key role in the development of Impressionism. He was the only artist to show in all 8 of the Impressionist exhibitions. For him Impressionism was a movement which allowed artistic emancipation. He believed strongly in free thought and speech. Before he introduced figures into his work in 1880, giving them a more decorative character, his paintings resembled most those of Monet. Later on Pissarro was attracted to Seurat’s Pointillism and saw it as a logical development of Impressionism. He adopted Seurat’s techniques but with limited success. Camille Pissarro was born in the West Indies, but studied in Paris under Corot. He also studied with Monet at the Academie Suisse, who encouraged him to join the Impressionists. Both Monet and Pissarro lived in London from 1870 to 1871 to avoid the Franco-Prussian War. From 1885-1888, Pissarro explored the divisionism technique of Neoimpressionist, Seurat, before returning to his original style. Confined indoors because of his failing eyesight, Pissarro painted views of Rouen and Paris from 1896 to his death.

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Those who have studied Painting know what Impressionism is. It is painting with broad strokes to let the mind of the observer fill in the details. It works with the mind as an equal partner – by only giving the gist of the scene to the mind.

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A very basic introduction to Impressionism, from a HS Art History survey course.

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Pointillism is a form of Post-Impressionism but I don’t know what Post-Impressionism is!

pointillism is when u use dots in different thinknesses and groupings to create the desired picture. post-impressionism is entirely different. its just used to describe the development of french art since manet.

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I need a definition of impressionism that isn’t too complicated. Most of the definitions I fine are things like, "A theory or style of painting originating and developed in France during the 1870s, characterized by concentration on the immediate visual …". Those aren’t too easy to understand.

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Basically impressionism is an art movement that involved painting captured moments of everyday life outside the studio, much like a photograph. The characteristics of it are the use of light and movement, open composition, intense colors, overall effects rather than details, and visible brush strokes.

I have to do an art project with the same drawing painted in cubism and impressionism. Just one object. It has to be close up, colorful (meaning more than 2 colors), and have a light source.
What should I do??
And any links would help!
Thanks.
I was thinking a parrot?

A sunset/sunrise is great for impressionism, but I don’t know how well that would do with cubism.

I’m learning about Impressionism, Romanticism, and Realism and I’m not sure how a bridge with it’s reflection in a river would represent Impressionism. It’s for my homework. Please help! Thank you in advance!

a bridge is a strong functional thing – a realist painter would paint it like that, maybe emphasising its strnght by painting it from a low perpective looking up so it rears above you; a romantic painter might emphasise its emotional qualities (it will take you somewhere, once crossed you might not be able to go back, what’s on the other side is mysterious, it might be terrifying) so might paint it in mist with hooded figures crossing it. An impressionist captures the few basic sensations the eye gets, reducing the bridge to its geometric shapes: and simple patches of colour that are not really there in nature but are pleasing to the eye – making a flat pattern rather than a shaded 3-D object, likewise will paint just the line of the arch and reflection of the arch forming an oval that can then be filled in with flat colour (and the waterline dividing it), the straight lines of the bed and the sweeping lines of the approaches or the cables holding up the bed: such a bridge would never take cars – it is only the visual idea of a bridge. Check out bridges by holderlin, hodler (romantic) , munch (expressionaist), cezanne (impressionist), frank stella (abstract expressionsits).

Im doing a project on Impressionism Art. I went on different sites but its all the same old stuff. I want to know some very interesting facts on it that will help me with my presentation. Can you pls help me?

In the commercial art world, a lot of what you see is impressionism. Almost every major museum show is on impressionism. Why? It sells? Why does it sell? When the movement started it was breaking the rules for what "Fine or Classical Art" galleries wanted to display for artwork. Through time and especially now, this work is iconoclastic. That is, the impressionist artists define culture today, in fact the images define "Fine Art" today because the work is easy to read, that is easy to appreciate and easy to enjoy.
I think the colors are the first reason this art is easy to approach. Color is the first barrier to enticing the viewer (my opinion) it talks to our senses first. If you hate a color you move on. Not just color but the combinations of the colors, the pallets, are wonderful. They are often bright and varied.
In my mind, the current popularity of I. Art is due to the "Modern Art" movement."Modern Art" of the last century was often abstract or so out of the box it would weird the unsophisticated viewer out and it would alienate many. That was the point of a lot of it. It was to be "out of the box", "outside the lines", and to have "shock value". I. Art gave people who wanted to understand art and appreciate art an easy out. They could have quality images that were considered good art. In certain cirlcles art is like bread, and wine, and fresh flowers; it is a must. So, for those that hated the modern stuff, they could still be artsy fartsy and have good art. People who collect art can read volumes from reading into another’s collection.
Lastly, the I. art movement reflected the rebelliousness of its time. I believe that that was appealing to collecters who were living through the radical changes of the 20th century.
So I hope there are some threads in there that you can elaborate on and run with.