Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism (By Anka Muhlstein)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/699479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism Author: Anka Muhlstein Narrator: Christine Rendel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac's Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of 'the father of Impressionism' and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas's and Mary Cassatt's experimental work, a support to Cézanne and Gauguin, and a comfort to Van Gogh, and was backed by the great Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel throughout his career. Nevertheless, he felt a persistent sense of being set apart, different, and hard to classify. Settled in France from the age of twenty-five but born in the Caribbean, he was not French and what is more he was Jewish. Although a resolute atheist who never interjected political or religious messages in his art, he was fully aware of the consequences of his lineage. Drawing on Pissarro's considerable body of work and a vast collection of letters that show his unrestrained thoughts, Anka Muhlstein offers a nuanced, intimate portrait of the artist whose independent spirit fostered an environment of freedom and autonomy.