Pissarro Camille:

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Pissarro Camille: Landscape at Chaponval.

This piece was painted during the Impressionist art movement. This technique emphasizes how light is portrayed. The heavy brush strokes really demonstrate that the piece show the overall feel and atmosphere of the scene, without getting hung up on the detail. This also means it can be done faster, meaning he can capture an instant in time.

He transforms a complex landscape into a much simplified but yet accurate painting - a quick snippet in time which captured the vibe and light of the landscape.

The subject he chose – a simple landscape - shows well this style and technique he used.

He has distorted the perspective to transform the way we view art. It is saying that art can have meaning without fine detail. Colour, perspective, light and subject are picked for a reason and have a meaning.

Although he used oil paint in his pieces some of the techniques he used can be applied to acrylic - the heavy brush stroke and the lack of detail. Let the viewer do the detail in their mind. And because everyone is different, this gives an open-endedness to the work which I like -not dictating the meaning, but simply helping and hinting through out the piece.

Other pieces that were painted at the same time showed power and riches, and the people in their place; not freedom and not the artist’s ideals or thoughts. In contrast, this is a humble piece trying to make a statement.