Camille Pissarro
In today’s society artist and their art work are in museums as well as many other places throughout the world. ... Camille Pissarro is the artist that I will talk to you about in this paper. ... In the following paragraph I will tell you about Camille Pissarro’s life.
Camille Pissarro was born on 10 July 1830, on what was then a Danish island in the West Indies, in Saint Thomas (Cogniat 24). Although little was know about his parents, except that his father, Abraham Gabriel Pissarro, was a French Jew of Portuguese origin and his mother, Raquel Manzano, was creole (24). Very early in Camille Pissarro’s life he showed an exceptional gift for drawing; however this was not encouraged by his parents, who preferred him to be a businessman (26). Camille had many battles and arguments while he was tryingto establish himself as a painter (Shikes and Harper 20). ... As schooling in Saint Thomas was haphazard the Pissarro’s sent Camille to France in 1841 (20). ... In this boarding school is where Camille perfected his talent and to preserve his efforts to become an artist (26). In spite of specific prohibition of Camille’s father, who had no intention of allowing his son to develop such unspeakably bad habits, Mr. Savery, appreciating the potentialities of Camille, let him indulge in his artistic bent during his leisurely walks and on vacations and holidays, thus not interfering with his schooling or openly opposing Pissarro’s father (26). When Camille was seventeen and it was felt that his education was adequate, he was recalled to Saint Thomas to begin his apprenticeship in the marts of trade (26). ... He was settling into life in 1850 when fate sent a catalyst in the person of Fritz George Melbye, a young Danish painter only four years older than Camille, who had already had some success as an artist (26). ... Pissarro was deeply touched and impressed by his attention and understanding and encouragement by Fritz Melbye that he decided to go to Carcas, Venezuela (26). ... Camille Pissarro was welcomed by many cultivated people (26). ... Based on strong evidence of Camille’s artistic learning, his father no longer tried to suppress him (26). Camille Pissarro set out to Paris to study his profession that his father approved in. Paris is where Pissarro became accustomed to the landscapes of France and responsive to their appeal (29). ... Pissarro listened to the advise of the painter Anton Melbye, who was the brother of Fritz (29). ... He received Pissarro with opened arms and was so impressed by his talent that he trusted him to finish man of his paintings (29).
The year 1855 offered Pissarro an opportunity to start his career and make a name for himself (30). During this time Pissarro me a man that was 10 years younger than him named Claude Monet (30). Pissarro and Monet shared many similarities like both in the beginning had an uncertain career as a painter and also with the conflict of the bourgeois family (30). ...
The year 1859 can be considered the date of Pissarro’s official debut, since this was the first time he exhibited a painting at the Salon (30). ... Pissarro would reappear in the subsequent Salons in 1865, 1866, and 1868 (30). ... Around this time Pissarro began painting with certain traits, which were characteristic of Impressionist techniques (32). ...
Until 1870, Pissarro stayed in Louveciennes (41). ... Pissarro would visit Monet who had also moved to England during this time (41).
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