Pamelia pissarro biography
Camille Pissarro could see this meadow nearly every day for 20 years.
The meadow was outside his home.
His home was in Éragny, north of Paris.
Camille was a great painter.
After Camille moved into his home, he painted hundreds of pictures like this one
in this field or nearby.
He painted them over 20 years.
He painted the meadow in all seasons – summer, autumn, winter, spring.
He painted it in different weather and different light
– in bright sunlight, in fogs, even in floods.
Camille was an impressionist,
an artist who paints the mood or feeling of a scene.
He was an important artist among a group called the French Impressionists that included:
- Claude Monet
- Edouard Manet
- Pierre Auguste Renoir
- Paul Cézanne
- and, Edgar Degas.
Camille painted this picture in spring in 1886.
It looks calm – but Camille himself was not calm inside.
He was unsure about the paintings he was making.
Camille started to paint using pointillism.
This is a way of painting using lots of dots of paint close together.
Artists who used pointillism were called neo-Impressionists.
The Impressionists and neo-Impressionists disagreed on the way to paint.
At the same time, Camille was setting up an exhibition of paintings by the Impressionists.
Camille asked some neo-Impressionists to show paintings with them.
Some Impressionists did not show their paintings
because they did not like the neo-Impressionist’s way of painting.
This was the last time the Impressionists ever showed their paintings together.
This painting, Prairie à Éragny, marks when Camille’s painting style was changing.
Using pointillism made his paintings different.
In this painting, he really shows the bright colours and warmth of a spring day.
Painted in 1886 in France, this is an oil on canvas painting, 59.4cms high by 73cms wide, full of vitality and colour.
Pissarro has lovingly and expertly rendered a bright, morning view of a meadow and a tree-lined hillside surrounding it. It is an idyllic, tranquil, French country scene of a particular style. One tree stands out in the mid-ground. The technique used here is Neo-impressionism,a disciplined network of dots and blocks of colour, instilling a sense of organisation and permanence. Colour mixing does not occur before the paint is applied, the time-consuming application of dots or dashes makes it possible to create a sophisticated, luminous effect, that from a distance, allows for depth and nuance of colour, replicating actual light conditions.
At the top of the frame is a fresh, spring sky, unbroken by clouds, created in baby blue, pastel blue, sky blue and powder blue dashes and dots. They juxtapose each another interspersed with dashes of white, beige, cream and pink. A plethora of luminous, delicate shades culminates in a crisp and hopeful sky. It is much whiter and lighter near the horizon line, close to a tree-lined crest, rising from the meadow in the foreground.
Against the organised splendour of Pisarros’s sky, the trees intricately rendered, their foliage made from a range of colours- reds, yellow, orange, rust coloured and green accentuates the sunshine cutting across a tranquil country scene, from our left. One tree is the focus, just off centre in the foreground.
Beyond the tree are A-frame, stone, farm buildings. Three buildings sit in a clearing at left casting shadows. Towards the centre, peaked rooves rise from within a cluster of light brown, yellow and green trees. Tall, light coloured conifers grow side by side, next to the dark foliage of denser, shorter trees.
Closer in, smaller shrubs form a meandering line along a fence, cutting across the image. Light green, new grass blankets the ground and these shrubs cast thin shadow This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth. These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art. The list covers artists born from 1870 through 1969. For later births see List of 21st-century women artists. .List of 20th-century women artists
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