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Almost as confusing to young art students as Monet and Manet are Pisano, Picasso and Pissarro. Niccola Pisano (1206-80) was a famed sculptor of the Italian Renaissance. Hulking Pablo Picasso, at 54, remains the highest priced of all modernist painters. Camille Pissarro was the French Impressionist who looked like Monet. Last week the firm of Durand-Ruel, which has had almost a monopoly on Impressionist paintings for 50 years, gave at its Manhattan galleries the most complete one-man show of Pissarro's paintings the U. S. has seen...
Painting hard, occasionally exhibiting, Camille Pissarro soon joined a group of artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Sisley who used to meet at a café known as Le Guerbois, on the Avenue de Clichy. In the oceans of talk at that café, the group gradually evolved theories of painting. They wanted to paint light, and they wanted to throw aside the moldy palette of the Academicians for pure tones, yellows, vermilions, emerald-greens. The friends of the café Guerbois had no name for them selves until April 15, 1874 when the Photographer Nadar lent them...
...money Manet frequently painted Monet. Monet, who made more money, never painted Manet...
During the Franco-Prussian War Manet became a staff officer, served gallantly, carried dispatches under fire at Champigny. Monet went to England...
Both men were married and both liked to do their painting outdoors in strong natural light. Manet, however, was first & last a figure painter and a realist while Monet was never interested in putting people, as such, on canvas...