00:00Camille Pissarro is a Danish-French painter and printmaker.
00:30Working closely with the younger neo-impressionists Georges Seurat and Paul Signac late in his life, he was one of the earliest artists to experiment with color harmonies.
00:43In his canvases, complementary colors in broken dashed brush strokes weave together to heighten the vibrancy of his compositions.
00:54In doing so, they visually embed his peasant figures harmoniously into the landscapes to which they belong and which belong to them, communicating a symbolic link to their terrain largely absent from the Impressionist painting.
01:12One of Pissarro's most famous and well-loved paintings, Factory on the Banks of the Wars, was created in 1873.
01:24One warm spring day, Pissarro took his easel to the banks of the Wars River and made a painting that is archetypical of the Impressionist style.
01:36The lavish portrayal of sunlight, the consciousness of the changing weather as grey clouds fill the intense blue sky, the presence of modernity in the new factories lining the banks of the Wars River, and the immediacy of the scene that bespeaks a plein air painting.
01:58The painting itself has a classic composition, divided almost equally between the sky and the earth, with the river dwindling away on the right side.
02:11The water, still as a mirror, reflects the smokestacks and buildings on the other side, and connects them with the freshness of the spring flowers in the right foreground.
02:24The factory, a distillery, had just been completed in 1872.
02:31Today, Factory on the Banks of the Wars is in Stirling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown in the United States.
02:42At the age of 38, Pissarro had begun to win himself a reputation as a landscapist to rival Corot and Daubigny.
02:54The landscape, viewed from Louvassiennes, was probably painted in the spring of 1870.
03:01The previous year Pissarro had moved from Pontoise to Louvassiennes, west of Paris, where his friends Renoir and Monet were then active.
03:13The painting shows the village of Voisennes in the centre, and the road leading towards the remains of the Marley aqueduct on the left horizon.
03:24View from Louvassiennes is located in the National Gallery in London, in England.
03:30The Avenue Sydenham is among the largest that Pissarro is known to have painted in London during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.
03:43The sunlight of Britain in the first days of spring, a light that is still cooled by winter and terribly reserved, not yet ready to take its coat off, is seen acutely by French eyes.
03:59Pissarro brings his feel for the immediate impression to a Victorian suburb, rendering posts as streaks of yellow-white, a grass verge as green and lemon, and trees that are getting their first new leaves as brown webs in the crisp air.
04:19It is almost painfully perfect as a picture of the timid first stirrings of rebirth.
04:26This picture depicts a scene that is little changed today.
04:31Technical analysis shows that the main outlines of the landscape were painted first, and the figures added over the paint that had dried.
04:42Currently, the painting is in the National Gallery in London, in England.
04:56Next, next week, I loved it as aillimmune and old glittering world.
05:01Next, I loved it as a lack of rain too.
05:02Next, I loved it as a planet.
05:04Next, we heard the elementos of the Ministry of Building laws.
05:06lace it to make near theishes and reminiscent
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