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Paintings Of Camille Pissarro And Jan Van Eyck

By Darren Hartley


Compared to the paintings themselves, Camille Pissarro paintings regarded light and movement to be of equal importance. Camille and Cezanne worked closely together for more than 25 years. They sometimes painted side by side on the very same subject. This was in Louveciennes and around Pontoise where Camille spent much of his working life.

The accurate recording of the sensations one experiences from nature observation was the objective of radical Camille Pissarro paintings. The oil paintings of Camille recorded Sydenham and the Norwoods at the time they were just recently connected by railways, but prior to the suburban expansion.

Two oil paintings among the Camille Pissarro paintings done in London was bought by Paul Durand-Ruel, an art dealer who subsequently became the most important of them all as far as the new school of French Impressionism was concerned. In 1890, Camille painted some ten scenes of central London during a visit to England.

Is Jan Van Eyck the inventor of oil painting? His Jan Van Eyck paintings seem to reflect so. However true that Jan was an early master of the oil painting medium, it remains to be a fact that painting with oil dates back to the Indian and Chinese paintings of the 5th century.

Jan Van Eyck paintings included the Arnolfini Marriage Portrait. This panel painting was famed for being one of the first panels to be executed in oil rather than in the standard tempura, which was the popular medium of the period.

The earliest surviving portrait among Jan Van Eyck paintings was the Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon. It presented many elements that were to become standards in Jan's portraiture style. These elements include the three-quarters view, dramatic directorial lighting and elaborate headdress. For single portraits, the framing of the figure within an undefined narrow space, set against a flat black background was the standard element.




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