Studio: international art (79.1920)

CAMILLE PISSARRO


"PONT NEUF—EFFET DE PLUIE”
BY CAMILLE PISSARRO

They experimented and made important
discoveries in regard to colour values as
distinct from chiaroscuro. Their work in
this direction led to what became known as
the Impressionist Movement which has
had such far-reaching influence on the
development of modern art. 0 0

From 1868 to 1871 Pissarro lived at
Louveciennes, which was on the line of the
Prussian advance on Paris. His work at
this time was remarkably solid, and showed
the combined influence of Corot and
Courbet modified by some subtle personal
quality of its own. In colour it was still
somewhat brown, but there was also a
luminous pearly quality, particularly in the
skies, and the greys were becoming more
delicate and varied. 000

He came over to London, and lived at

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Sydenham. In the meantime the Prus-
sians occupied his house and charac-
teristically destroyed all his pictures, so
that his early work, up to that period, is
very scarce. He painted several pictures
in the neighbourhood of Sydenham—the
painting. Lower Norwood', reproduced here,
belongs to that period—and during his stay
in London, both he and Claude Monet
were invited to exhibit at the Royal
Academy. There is no record of their
having done so. This hospitality was
extended to them as distinguished strangers
while the Academy was treating the inde-
pendent artists of England in precisely the
same manner as Monet and Pissarro were
being treated in Paris. Year after year,
the Salon refused to exhibit their work, and
with the other Impressionist painters they