Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. His father was Portuguese-Jewish and his mother was a native Creole. Pissaro’s family had been living in the St. Thomas Danish colony.
Pissarro was sent to study to Savary Academy, which was a boarding school in France. There he showed his passion for drawing. When he returned to his hometown, Pissaro had little interest in their family business so he just used his time making a sketch of picturesque port. Year 1852, he went to Venezuela and labored as a creative artist for almost two years.
In 1855, he then resided in France. Fortunately at the time of his arrival, there was an event called World Fair, an important Exposition Universelle that was all about art. At the fair, he met Corot and admired his works. Being advised by Corot, Pissarro soon started sketching and painting in small villages and near Paris, down the Seine, Oise, and also Marne rivers. Pissaro studied at AcadEmie Suisse and had friends like Claude Monet, Paul CEzanne, and some future members of the Impressionist group. In 1860s, a prominent critic named Emile Zola praised his convincing realist landscapes.
In 1871, Camille resided in Pontoise where he remained close to his friends for almost 10 years. CEzanne frequently came to accompany him and under Pissaro’s influence, CEzanne learned nature further with patience.
Camille Pissarro gradually left Neo-Impressionism in 1890 and preferred a style which better allowed him to catch his feelings of nature, while retaining the purity and lightness of color being acquired during Camille’s divisionist phase. During his last years of his existence, Camille shared his time between Le Havre, Rouen, Paris, and also his residence in Eragny and he also painted several patterns of different elements of the city with different weather effects and light, while signifying the animation of the current city. A lot of his paintings are being considered among the best and it made a fitting ending to his long but eventful career.
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