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Camille Pissarro believed fervently in the benefits of manual labor and communal living and represented laboring peasants throughout his life. In spite of this traditional subject, he was one of the more daring members of the Impressionist group. He was constantly experimenting with cutting-edge techniques and scientific theories to record his observations of nature while imbuing his work with compositional stability and meaning. Pissarro was among the first to adopt Georges Seurat’s groundbreaking pointillist method, in which tiny dots of pure color were placed side by side in order to re-create the dazzling effect of reflected light. Here, dots of red, blue, green, pink, lavender, orange, and yellow create a stylized and carefully balanced scene of apple picking in the French countryside in the bright afternoon sun.
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Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2017.
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Created 1888
Former Title? Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte
Bonnie Pitman, ed., "Apple Picking," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 204.
Camille Pissarro was a leading impressionist artist when, in 1885, he met the young Georges Seurat, who was developing a new approach to painting. Using a precise, mechanical brushstroke, he applied dots of pure color side-by-side on the canvas, allowing the colors to mix optically rather than blending them on the palette. Pissarro saw in Seurat's approach a way to advance the Impressionists' experiments along scientific lines and joined his followers, soon known as neo-impressionists. In Apple Harvest, gray and brown tones, previously important elements of Pissarro's palette, are absent, replaced with short brushstrokes of pure, vibrant color to create the dazzling effect of afternoon light. By the end of 1888, Pissarro would become frustrated with the limitations of the pointillist technique, but Apple Harvest remains one of the most accomplished and confident expressions of his neo-impressionist period.
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General Description
Camille Pissarro believed fervently in the benefits of manual labor and communal living and represented laboring peasants throughout his life. In spite of this traditional subject, he was one of the more daring members of the Impressionist group. He was constantly experimenting with cutting-edge techniques and scientific theories to record his observations of nature while imbuing his work with compositional stability and meaning. Pissarro was among the first to adopt Georges Seurat’s groundbreaking pointillist method, in which tiny dots of pure color were placed side by side in order to re-create the dazzling effect of reflected light. Here, dots of red, blue, green, pink, lavender, orange, and yellow create a stylized and carefully balanced scene of apple picking in the French countryside in the bright afternoon sun.
Excerpt from
Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2017.
Fun Facts
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Web Resources
- Guggenheim, New York~Read a biography of Camille Pissarro.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York~Learn more about Neo-Impressionism from the Met.
Notes
Created 1888
Former Title? Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte
Bonnie Pitman, ed., "Apple Picking," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 204.
Camille Pissarro was a leading impressionist artist when, in 1885, he met the young Georges Seurat, who was developing a new approach to painting. Using a precise, mechanical brushstroke, he applied dots of pure color side-by-side on the canvas, allowing the colors to mix optically rather than blending them on the palette. Pissarro saw in Seurat's approach a way to advance the Impressionists' experiments along scientific lines and joined his followers, soon known as neo-impressionists. In Apple Harvest, gray and brown tones, previously important elements of Pissarro's palette, are absent, replaced with short brushstrokes of pure, vibrant color to create the dazzling effect of afternoon light. By the end of 1888, Pissarro would become frustrated with the limitations of the pointillist technique, but Apple Harvest remains one of the most accomplished and confident expressions of his neo-impressionist period.
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