Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne a: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865-1885 - Softcover

Pissarro, Joachim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870701851 ISBN 13: 9780870701856

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 2007

Synopsis

Few artists have had a personal and professional relationship as intense and long-lasting as Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) and Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). After meeting at art school in Paris in the 1860s, they quickly established a friendship that lasted almost a quarter of a century. This led to one of the most fascinating artistic exchanges of the nineteenth century.
Joachim Pissarro's text invites readers to question the relevance of conventional art-historical labels used to define each artist's position in the pantheon of art history: Camille Pissarro as the arch-Impressionist, and Paul Cezanne as the pioneering Post-Impressionist. His essay stresses the multifarious artistic dialogue developed by these artists and explores the ideological and artistic concepts that bind their careers from beginning to end. What mattered for each of them was the ability to see new possibilities for expressing his "sensations" in front of nature, whether through novel painting techniques that they explored together or through dialogues with each other and with art critics.
This book is published to accompany the first exhibition of the work of Cezanne and Pissarro at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the summer of 2005. The more than one hundred paintings and drawings illustrated in this book focus on comparisons between the two artists' work, and the juxtapositions are truly revelatory.

About this title

Synopsis:

Cezanne and Pissarro met each other in 1861, and developed a personal and professional relationship that lasted almost a quarter of a century. Their artistic interchange is the focus of this book, newly available in paperback, which is the first to bring together the work of these two major artists and to examine their output at a crucial moment in their careers. The books narrative, which includes quotes from letters to each other and to their family and friends, brings to vivid life the remarkable give-and-take between these two pioneers. An essay by Joachim Pissarro discusses this fascinating relationship and offers new insights into both the shared and the distinctive elements of the two artists' aesthetic sensibility.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0870701851
• ISBN 13: 9780870701856
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256