Mary’s Landscape Art Info

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was the father figure and peacemaker of the Impressionists. He mentored Cezanne and Gauguin and cautioned them “Do not define too closely the outline of things. It is the brushstrokes of the right color and value that should produce the drawing.”

A patient teacher, Pissarro instructed Cezanne in how to control form through color and diagonal strokes. Cezanne called him, “humble and colossal.” Pissarro was a dedicated plein air painter and he daily took his canvas in search of a scene which he reproduced with bright colors and patchy brush strokes. He is also known for bustling Parisian street scenes filled with people and carriages rendered in spots of colors, as if viewed from a second story window.