Camille Pissarro

Biography

Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) was a founding Impressionist, the only member to exhibit in all eight group shows, and a mentor to artists such as Cézanne and Gauguin. After experimenting with Neo‑Impressionism in the 1880s, he returned in the 1890s to a freer touch and developed serial city views from high windows to study time, weather, and modern life [5][1].

Themes in Their Work

The modern lens: urban life & speedMimesis vs. abstraction (truth vs. artifice)Lasting vs. fleeting (ephemerality)Spectacle & commodity fetishismNight/nocturne & darkness as knowledgeSpeed, circulation, and networks

Featured Artworks

Boulevard Montmartre at Night by Camille Pissarro

Boulevard Montmartre at Night

Camille Pissarro (1897)

A high window turns Paris into a flowing current: in Boulevard Montmartre at Night, Camille Pissarro fuses <strong>modern light</strong> and <strong>urban movement</strong> into a single, restless rhythm. Cool electric halos and warm gaslit windows shimmer across rain‑slick stone, where carriages and crowds dissolve into <strong>pulse-like blurs</strong> <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.