Pissarro's Painting 'Peasants In The Fields'

Pissarro was a talented painter of the post-impressionist style era of art. In the oil on canvas painting Peasants in the Fields, Eragny it is shown that Pissarro is a revolutionary painter in the styles and techniques he uses. This one in particularly is done in a pointillism style of painting.
This painting was also done in his late career when he started branching off into new directions and broadening his fields of style and techniques. He was a master painter that would draw from real life and always do landscapes and street side painting of what was around him to study how the color was affected by the time. The way climate, area, and time of day would be his specialty in his career. He was a great influence to others during his painting …show more content…
Each color representing another and once the viewer of a piece steps back it becomes a blended picture. Each color will blend together to either differentiate the subjects in the painting or conjoin with the colors around it to create a dimensional color. These multiple colors create an illumination and density to one specific color in the subject of the painting. For example, in the woman’s red scarf in the Eragny painting is made of ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson, naples yellow, pthalo blue and ivory black. From afar this looks like an elegantly painted pink headdress with folds from being wrapped around her. This scarf alone makes the viewer believe the folds’ effect on the shadowed area. Usually with pointillism the artist uses a mix of warm and cool colors for light areas and dark values. It is how they position the colors next to one another that allows a new color to be seen from afar instead of dots of separate colors. Seurat was working Pissarro in creating his A Sunday on La Grande Jatte- 1884 when Pissarro decided to experiment with Seurat’s theory on pointillism. This was then finished six years later in 1890 when he was painting his surroundings in France. This type of style affected his later styles in his career. You can tell that Seurat learned a lot from Pissarro due to his painting. I become a very wide known painting that will be remembered forever. …show more content…
The little child on the right is composed in a place where there’s a balance the painting out. But each subject is painted one right next to the other with slight distance change. This also prevents the eye from moving and makes you glance at the painting briefly instead of staring and observing it for a long time. One way to improve it is having the small girl's father in the distance from the parents rather than right next to them. Understand this is a study from life there is always room for artistic interpretation of the painting as well. The points of composition were not used now and that alone could’ve improved the painting. Having the staggered figures would allow the viewers eye try to jump more and continuously try to study the piece of work.
The detail of the little girl on the right is great due the expression Pissarro leaves on her face. When the viewer looks at her, she looks self-amused and content. Now when it comes to the adults he leaves more to the imagination and doesn’t include too much detail. The girl alone makes this a wondrous piece to study and analyze. Although there are little brush strokes they could be placed correctly to show expression color and detail. The painting of the girl has closer clustered dots which allow her to be more focused