Camille Pissarro, part 5

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00:00Camille Pissarro

00:26Art of French painter Camille Pissarro cannot be divorced from his politics.

00:32Influenced artistically by the realist painter Gustave Courbet,

00:38Pissarro's paintings dignify the labour of peasants in communal villages,

00:44reflecting the socialist-anarchist political leanings that the two artists shared.

00:50Unlike the Impressionists who lived in Paris, Pissarro chose to live most of his life in the French countryside,

00:58where he received younger artists interested in studying his techniques.

01:04More than any other member of the movement, he is known for the gentle demeanour and passion for experimentation that made him an artistic mentor.

01:14His long-time collaboration with the young Cézanne, for example, made him an indispensable influence on 20th century modernism.

01:24The picture The Louvre Under Snow was created in 1902.

01:30In his older age, Pissarro suffered from a recurring eye infection that prevented him from working outdoors except in warm weather.

01:41As a result of this disability, he began painting outdoor scenes while sitting by the window of hotel rooms.

01:50He often chose hotel rooms on upper levels to get a broader view.

01:56He moved around northern France and painted from hotels in Rouen, Paris, Louvre and Dieppe.

02:04On his visits to London, he would do the same.

02:07The Louvre Under Snow is one of a series of views painted by Pissarro from the apartment.

02:14He took in 1900 at 28 Place Dauphin on the Ile de la Cité in Paris.

02:22Here he is looking west along the river Seine.

02:26The Pont des Arts and the Louvre are seen in the distance.

02:30The railings and steps on the left enclose the 19th century statue of Henry IV.

02:38Currently, the Louvre Under Snow is in the National Gallery in London in England.

02:45Pissarro painted sunlight on the road Pontoise in 1874.

02:51During the 1870s, many of the Impressionist landscape painters went to live in the small towns surrounding Paris.

03:01They painted the ordinary scenes of the nearby countryside with a fresh, direct approach.

03:08Often working outdoors, the balanced composition and cool harmony of blues, greens and creamy yellow give this river view a serene stability.

03:20Typical of the work of Pissarro, a leader in the group and an important mentor to Cézanne and Gauguin.

03:28Nowadays, sunlight on the road Pontoise is located at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the United States.

03:38Between 1884 and 1888 Pissarro experimented with the pointillist method of the younger Sera for an avowed anarchist.

03:50It was perhaps no great step but in art historical terms.

03:55Pissarro's stylistic shift, however momentary, coincided with the end of Impressionism's avant-garde ascendancy.

04:05Peasants' houses' irony was painted during this fascinating interlude.

04:11Pissarro has fully absorbed the tenets and techniques of the distinctive style.

04:18Form is constructed by discrete juxtaposition of individual strokes or dots of pigment.

04:26Atmosphere is suggested by chromatic scintillation.

04:30Surface is treated as a single unity.

04:33The mechanical effect which can deaden pointillist painting is obviated by Pissarro's acute sense of the internal dynamics of design.

04:44The cast shadows intruding from the right are deliberately naïve.

04:49This was to be an important innovation for the younger generation of post-impressionists such as Gauguin and Cézanne.

04:58At the moment, Peasants' Houses' irony is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

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