Analysis of Impressionism Artist Camille Pissarro and Art Characteristics

【Abstract】This paper introduces the life story of Camille Pissarro， the different techniques used in his career， and the analysis of his style. By analysing his work as well as his life story， this paper provides an analysis of Camille Pissarro’s characteristics as well as the impressionism.

【Key words】Impressionism Artist； Camille Pissarro； Art Characteristics

【作者簡(jiǎn)介】劉思岑，成都石室中學(xué)北湖校區(qū)。

1. Introduction

Sunrise， water lily， lights and shadows， the impressionism artist Camille Pissarro used vivid colour to express his strong feeling via his pen. Camille Pissarro was a friend of Monet. He is named as the firmest impressionism artist. Among the artists in the impressionism， Monet was the founder and named the faction， but Camille Pissarro is normally mentioned as the true leader of the impressionism.

2. The life story of Camille Pissarro

The father of Camille Pissarro was a French Jewish Trader who wished his son to follow his business， he sent his son to Paris for study at age of 11. In 1847， the 17-year-old Camille Pissarro finished his study and went back to Saint Thomas Island. When he was 22， he was invited by a Danish artist to study in Venezuela.

When he arrived in Venezuela， he didn’t decide to build his career as an artist， he regarded his walk-away as a break up between himself and the capitalism life. As a revolution movement broke out in July 1830 and founded the second France Republican. Affected by this， Pissarro wanted to be away from the control of capitalism. After then， he went to Paris and studied painting in the Danish artist Mile’s studio for a short time. In early 1855， the Universal Exposition was held in Paris and he was deeply impressed by the famous works， especially the landscape created by Corot. Then he decided to devote to landscape painting. Camille Pissarro’s life story is full of hardness， but he did not blame his life. Instead， he discovered the poetic beauty and happiness in his life， he once told his son that everything has its own beauty， the question is how to express it. When he was 60， he could no longer walk into the nature， so he painted everyday by his window till his death.

3. The landscape of Camille Pissarro

In his early career， his painting is dark in colour， which was affected by Corot. In his early work Village de Voisins， it was made mainly in dark colours， the shadow of trees was painted in dark green and dark brown， while blue was used in the shadow of houses. Pissarro maintains the unify of lighting and colours， he used the colours in dark to compare with purified colour in lights and use slightly cold medium colour to balance the work.

In his middle career， his work evolved into a brand-new vivid world. He started to modify the colour phase in his painting， and considered the solid feeling of objects， which was affected by the study of paintings by Turner. Another aspect of effect was from Courbet with his structural paintings， which was reflected in his painting Water Lily. In his late career， his paintings were affected by point rehearsal， which to stress that a painting should have a single main colour. He used his typical Knit techniques to unify the paintings into tiny standard painting elements， and express the objects through his brightly drawing technique. The unifying elements were drawn bits by bits into the painting， making the whole painting into an organised main colour.

4. Style of Camille Pissarro

Pissarro liked to adopt Japanese blurry capturing technique， he used the bright colour and shaking paintings to express modern landscape. Pissarro was a country landscape artist， he tried to express the unifying of human and environment， and to express the landscape and village as a whole image. He used original colour as moderate groundwork and let others fix the colour during watching. Such was can provide an easier understanding of Pissarro’s characteristics， including humble， persistent， deep， bright， as well as his bright attitude to his poor life.

5. Summary

Pissarro is a leader of impressionism， he not only has a bright and deep eye， but also an ability to find the nature of the object in front of him. He used his vivid and bright colour to catch every beautiful expression of this world to us. Every expression he made eventually combine and formed his unique language of painting. His style of natural， pure， soft， blur， deep， transparent， alive and firmness makes viewers impressed with the painting. The work he left deserve us to study in the whole life.

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