Abstract Pissarro : planting the seeds of abstract art / by Ann Saul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saul, Ann, author.

Contributor:

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903, artist.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903--Criticism and interpretation.

Pissarro, Camille.

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903--Influence.

Pissarro, Camille, 1830-1903.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

157 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Art Book Annex, 2019.

Summary:

"As a young man, Camille Pissarro chose to create a radical new art--one that defied French academic standards and the Paris Salons. He filled his paintings with obvisouly visible brushstrokes, flat forms with no volume, motifs of no special 'importance' stripped to the bare essentials, and daring geometric compositions declaring their significance without any narrative framework. By signing his name, he made his intention clear that these were finished works. He was not making pretty pictures; he was making paintings. This book identifies the earliest times that he began using each of these elements as unique abstract techniques and then shows how he developed these techniques in full"--Preface.

Contents:

Pissaro: the whiplash of originality

Abstract elements in Pissarro's paintings

Ahead of his time from the beginning

Pissarro's tradition of modern art

Impressionism plus

From Pissarro to Cézanne

Pissarro's pointillism

Pissarro: Post-Impressionism and beyond

Pissarro in Pollack and others

Pissarro reconsidered.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages 151-153) and index.

ISBN:

9780988568518

0988568519

OCLC:

1176495229