00:26Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a French landscape artist,
00:32best known for his influence on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.
00:37Known as the father of Impressionism, Pissarro painted rural and urban French life,
00:43particularly landscapes in and around Pont-Oise, as well as scenes from Montmartre.
00:50His mature work displays an empathy for peasants and laborers, and sometimes evidences his radical political leanings.
01:00He was a mentor to Paul C茅zanne and Paul Gauguin, and his example inspired many younger artists, including Californian Impressionist Lucy Bacon.
01:10The picture Apple Harvest at Irani was created in 1888, as an anarchist Pissarro believed that society could and would be completely transformed by widespread insurrection,
01:26followed by an era of cooperative action.
01:30This small painting shows youthful harvesters in an expansive field composed of thousands of colorful dots of paint.
01:39The horizon line curves noticeably, suggesting that Pissarro was showing but one, luminous segment of the world as it might appear in the future.
01:50This painting, perhaps more than any of Pissarro's other works, illustrates the degree to which his art and his political beliefs were inextricably entwined.
02:02Currently, Apple Harvest at Irani is in Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, the United States.
02:10Painted by Camille Pissarro near the end of his life in 1901,
02:15The Poe North, A Winter Morning, carries the vision of the French Impressionists into the 20th century.
02:22The artist is said to have painted it from the window of his apartment on the Ile de la Cit茅 in Paris.
02:29The painting poignantly contrasts the momentary effects of a winter sunrise with the lasting monuments of the city.
02:38The bare tree branches, the paving stones and the distant buildings are briefly touched by the still-hidden sun,
02:46which warms and softens the great chill with a suffused glow.
02:50As people go about their early morning business and the river Seine flows strongly but calmly by,
02:58everything is dappled with pink or red lights and blue shadows or reflections from the sky.
03:04The unusually pristine condition of this painting on a canvas that has never been reliant
03:10provides a rare opportunity to appreciate the textured surface,
03:15which carries an air of spontaneity for all its analytical craft.
03:20The Poe North, A Winter Morning, is located at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary.
03:27The picture of Ox Hill, Upper Norwood was painted by Pissarro in 1870 in South London.
03:35Towards the end of 1870, Pissarro and his family took refuge in England from the Franco-Prussian War.
03:42He stayed in Upper Norwood, London until June 1871.
03:47During this time, he lodged at 77A Westow Hill and painted several views of Upper Norwood and Sydenham,
03:56including the Avenue Sydenham.
03:58This was at a time when the area was undergoing a process of transition.
04:03The railways had arrived, but suburbia had not yet swallowed up all the fields.
04:08This is yet another winter landscape, and one from before snow plows were invented.
04:15Look at the blues, pinks and mauves, which help to provide the structure of the snow with this snowy landscape.
04:22In addition, it is hard not to love his ladies in crinolines making their way along the snowy verge.
04:29Many of the houses in this street have been rebuilt, but the general character of this view and the distinctive bend still correspond with Pissarro's painting.
04:40Currently, the painting is in the National Gallery in London.
04:59There is an affordable and the kitchen in the
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