Pissarro

Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter.

His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. He took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54. Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists.

He is known as one of the "parents of impressionism." He painted French rural life, especially the landscapes and scenes in which peasants appeared working, but also urban scenes in Montmartre.

Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, Realism, Pointillism, Post-Impressionism, Neo-impressionism, Academic art.