Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne & Pissarro 1865 - 1885

by Pissarro, Joachim

• ISBN13: 9780870701849
• ISBN10: 0870701843
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

This book is the first to explore the work of Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro in the context of their artistic relationship, including many paintings that the artists executed side by side as they worked in Pontoise and Auvers from the mid- 1860s to the mid- 1880s. The book accompanies an exhibition of paintings and drawings that embody the core of the two artists' collaboration. Their dynamic relationship began with their first meeting, at the Academie Suisse, Paris, in around 1861, and continued throughout their careers. To examine the techniques that they adopted in response to each other's work, the exhibition and book will juxtapose related works by both artists, reuniting many of them for the first time since they were created. The friendship between Cezanne and Pissarro was of considerable importance within the development of early modernism. An essay by Joachim Pissarro discusses this fascinating interchange and offers new insights into both the shared and the distinctive elements of the two artists' aesthetic sensibility.

Author Biography

Joachim Pissarro, great-grandson of Camille Pissarro, is a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Table of Contents

Pioneering modern painting
Still modern?	p. 11
Origins : two foreigners - the formation of a new language in painting	p. 17
Dialogues in word and paint	p. 38
Reviewing the past and facing the end	p. 65
Impressionism, post-impressionism : it's all modern painting	p. 71
Plates
"Setting the Louvre on fire" : radical technique and ideology in early works	p. 74
Reciprocal gazes : portraits and self-portraits	p. 86
Portraits on paper : drawings	p. 94
Louveciennes/Louveciennes : "to each his own sensation"	p. 102
Still lifes of the 1870s : a classic genre "improperly" painted	p. 108
Building with paint : houses and village streets in Auvers-sur-Oise and Pontoise	p. 122
A turning road : experiments with composition and the palette knife in 1875	p. 144
Separate paths through a shared landscape : the late 1870s and the third impressionist exhibition	p. 162
Contrasts in pure colors : L'Estaque and Pontoise	p. 180
A backward glance : Cezanne reconsiders Pissarro's early work	p. 186
Salut and farewell : a final interaction	p. 202
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