... family in a rural area outside Paris. Pissarro not only morally encouraged Cézanne, but also introduced him to the new impressionist technique for rendering outdoor light. Along with the painters Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and a few others, Pissarro had developed a painting style that involved working outdoors rapidly and on a reduced scale, employing small touches of pure color. Under Pissarro's influence ... , Cézanne's figure is framed in by the easel in front of him and the palette he holds against himself, that almost seems to be a part of him. The color of his head is d...

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... outdoors, in an attempt to capture the fleeting impression of the play of light at a certain moment. The first Impressionist Exhibition was held in 1874. Prominent among the Impressionists were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Eugéne Boudin, and Gustave Caillebotte. Impressionism is thought to be the fruit of the scientific thought and ... black has tints of colour in it. It was the awareness of all these details that led the Impressionists into excluding black from their paintings; discard earthly tones and deal almost solely with th...

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