Camille Pissarro: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

Pissarro started as a student of Camille Corot. Even in this teacher's choice, we see the artist's inherent love for the landscape painting. Already in his early works, he paid particular attention to the image of the illuminated objects in the air. Light and air have become a leading topic in Pissarro's work.Gradually, he began to get rid of Corot's influence, his style matured. Since 1866, the palette of the artist has become brighter, the space dominated by sunlight and sparkling air, and the neutral tones inherent in Corot disappear.The works that glorified Pissarro are a combination of traditional landscapes and unusual techniques for painting bright and illuminated objects. The landscapes of the mature Pissarro were painted with thick brushstrokes and filled with the physical sense of light that he wanted to express.After he acquainted with Georges-Pierre Seurat in 1890, Pissarro was interested in the technique of Pointillism (separate staining). But his works were selling very severely. Furthermore, what he wanted to convey with the help of this technique was gradually exhausted and ceased to bring him artistic satisfaction. Pissarro returned to his usual way.In the last years of Pissarro's life, his health has deteriorated visibly. Still, he continued to work and created a series of views of Paris, filled with high artistic emotions. The unusual prospect of these canvases is explained by the fact that the artist painted them not on the street, but the windows of hotel rooms. This series of landscapes has become one of the highest achievements of Impressionism in the transmission of light and atmospheric effects.