impressionism & Post Impressionism(Camille Pissarro)

Camille Pissarro is a French landscape painter known for his influence on impressionism and impressionism.

Camille Pissarro was born at Saint Thomas on July 10, 1830. Camille Pissarro moved to Paris as a young man, he started experimenting with art and eventually helped shape the impressionist movement with his friends, including Claude Monay and Edgar Degas. Camille Pissarro was also active in the post-impressionist circle, he continued to paint until his death in Paris on November 13, 1903.

 in his early years, he was sent to a boarding school by his parents when he was twelve. there, he developed an early appreciation of the French art masters. After he completed all his educations he went back to St. Thomas, he involved in his family’s mercantile business. but in his spare time, he never stopped drawing and painting.

 In 1855 Pissarro returned back to Paris, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Suisse and worked closely with painters Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet, honing his skills and experimenting with new approaches to art. eventually, he fell in with a group of young artists, including Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne, who shared his interest and questions.

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