Word: pissarros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures in the famed first exhibition of the Impressionists in 1874, was infuriated for the rest of his life when critics continued to call him an Impressionist. Painting outdoors gave him a cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas' famed sporting pictures were painted in his studio from rapid pencil sketches. Though one of the greatest of figure painters, he despised women. "Little rats" was his favorite term for the ballet dancers who posed for his great pastel studies, and he seemed to take a malicious delight...
...Pissarro may be the greatest man from the Virgin Islands [TIME, March 16], but he has a close rival in Judah Benjamin (1811-84). My own candidate would be Sosthenes Behn...
...Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for himself as a stockbroker. On Sundays Broker Gauguin got the smell of counting houses out of his nose by going into the suburbs, painting landscapes. On these trips he met and made friends with Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock exchange, skipped to the West Indies to paint. Back in Paris after a few months, he had an exhibition that was a failure, moved on to a Brittany fishing village, met the equally erratic Vincent van Gogh, went to live with...
...Camille Pissarro became the unofficial secretary of the group, writing to dealers, arranging shows, patching quarrels. As anyone walking round last week's exhibition could see, Impressionist Pissarro liked his friends' painting almost too well. He painted sometimes like Millet, sometimes like Cezanne, sometimes like Sisley, sometimes like Mary Cassatt. When his friend Seurat invented a technique of painting with tiny blobs of pure color, Camille Pissarro tried that too. In that manner is possibly the most effective canvas in last week's exhibition-the Dieppe railway train disappearing into a green forest beyond a yellow corn...
...Camille Pissarro never made much money. If he got $500 for a canvas he thought he was doing well. Fame came to him late in life. With a beard every bit as large and white as that of his friend Monet, and evening clothes of black velvet, he was idolized by young Bohemians of the 1890's, loved to preside at the Impressionists' monthly dinners in the café Riche. He died Nov. 13, 1903 of an abscessed prostate gland...