Tejados rojos de camille pissarro biography

Work information

Title: Les toits rouges, coin de village, effet d'hiver
Artist:Pissarro, Camille
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Technique: Oil on canvas

The title, Red roofs, corner of a village, winter, makes clear the theoretical dimension of this work by Camille Pissarro. In this painting he in fact moves away from an anecdotal idea of landscape.
The planes are in parallel succession on the surface of the canvas. So the impression of depth is rendered simply by the decreasing size of the subjects. The slopes of the roofs, varying from orange-red to brown, seem to spread across the whole surface. The same tones can be found in the fields and plants in the foreground, as well as on the Côte St Denis in the background. The thick impasto catches the light, and makes the brushstrokes vibrant, conferring a great intensity and feeling of movement on the painted surface.

This painting dates from the time after when Pissarro and Cézanne used to work together on the same subject. But Cézanne's

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Tejados De Durango

"Tejados de Durango" (Roofs of Durango) is a notable painting by the Spanish artist Darío de Regoyos y Valdés, created during the late 19th or early 20th century. Regoyos, born in and passing in , was an influential figure in Spanish painting, known for his role in introducing Impressionism and post-Impressionism to Spanish art. He was associated with the European avant-garde movements and was a friend of prominent artists and writers, including the French neo-impressionist painter Camille Pissarro and the Spanish novelist Emilia Pardo Bazán.

The painting "Tejados de Durango" depicts a view of the rooftops in the town of Durango in the Basque Country, a region in northern Spain that often served as inspiration for Regoyos's works. His approach to landscape painting was characterized by a vibrant use of color and a dynamic application of paint, which can be seen in the way he captures the light and atmosphere of the scene. The rooftops are rendered with a sense o