Pissarro
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- proper noun
- /pɪˈsɑːroʊ/
- Zola's writing on Pissarro is insightful, even inspired; as early as 1866, he understood what Pissarro wanted to do with his painting.
- Pissarro's paintings
- Pissarro's picture
- Pissarro's landscapes
Examples
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For Pissarro, the presentation of works was one place where distinctions could still be drawn in 1887.
Academic text (1991) -
In 1880, Pissarro turned away from landscape painting and toward figure painting.
Academic text (1998) -
Though, if I may respectfully disagree, I'm more in the tradition of Pissarro.
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For the critics, Pissarro's art both exemplified and helped produce the new vocabulary.
Academic text (1998) -
In the midst of these dressed-up canvases, those of Pissarro appear bare and desolate.
Academic text (1998) -
Pissarro's picture, in Zola's eyes, succeeds despite its defects; it conveys truth despite its flaws.
Academic text (1998) -
I'm reminded of the glowing countryside paintings of Camille Pissarro, one of the most influential Impressionists.
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Mr. Thomas Crown has very generously loaned us a Pissarro until our own Monet is restored to us.
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All right, well, what we do know is that whoever stole the Pissarro had skills.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pissarro is a family name best known for the French painter Camille Pissarro, an important figure in Impressionism, so the name usually points to that artist and his paintings.