Place du Theatre-Francais, spring (1898) is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Camille Pissarro. Here Pissarro depicted that part of Paris near the Comedie Francaise, although the theatre building itself remains outside the painting. The artist was interested not in famous views, but in the everyday life of the city itself, such as the stop for ... Continue reading »
Hay Harvest at Éragny is a 1901 painting by Continue reading »
Camille Pissarro seems to have done just that when he painted another of his famous paintings in art history, ”Avenue de l’Opera”, 1898, reducing his paint to small juxtaposed dabs of paint suggesting figures and forms. He had met Seurat and Signac in 1885 ... Continue reading »
Some of the detractors asked Pissarro “If I walk along the boulevard, do I look like this? Do I loose my legs, my eyes, and my nose and turn into a faceless blob?” The public until this time was used to a more traditional art with full attention paid to ... Continue reading »