Editing Camille Pissarro (section)

===Studying with Seurat and Signac===
[[File:Camille Pissarro - La Récolte des Foins, Éragny - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|''La Récolte des Foins, Eragny'', 1887]]
In 1885 he met [[Georges Seurat]] and [[Paul Signac]],<ref>Cogniat, Raymond, ''Pissarro'', Crown (1975), p. 92. {{ISBN|0-517-52477-5}}</ref> both of whom relied on a more "scientific" theory of painting by using very small patches of pure colours to create the illusion of blended colours and shading when viewed from a distance. Pissarro then spent the years from 1885 to 1888 practising this more time-consuming and laborious technique, referred to as [[pointillism]]. The paintings that resulted were distinctly different from his Impressionist works, and were on display in the 1886 Impressionist Exhibition, but under a separate section, along with works by Seurat, Signac, and his son [[Lucien Pissarro|Lucien]].

All four works were considered an "exception" to the eighth exhibition. [[Joachim Pissarro]] notes that virtually every reviewer who commented on Pissarro's work noted "his extraordinary capacity to change his art, revise his position and take on new challenges."<ref name="Gallery2"/>{{rp|52}} One critic writes:

:"It is difficult to speak of Camille Pissarro&nbsp;... What we have here is a fighter from way back, a master who continually grows and courageously adapts to new theories."<ref name="Gallery2"/>{{rp|51}}

Pissarro explained the new art form as a "phase in the logical march of Impressionism",<ref name="Gallery2"/>{{rp|49}} but he was alone among the other Impressionists with this attitude, however. Joachim Pissarro states that Pissarro thereby became the "only artist who went from Impressionism to [[Neo-Impressionism]]".

In 1884, art dealer [[Theo van Gogh (art dealer)|Theo van Gogh]] asked Pissarro if he would take in his older brother, [[Vincent van Gogh|Vincent]], as a boarder in his home. Lucien Pissarro wrote that his father was impressed by Van Gogh's work and had "foreseen the power of this artist", who was 23 years younger. Although Van Gogh never boarded with him, Pissarro did explain to him the various ways of finding and expressing light and color, ideas which he later used in his paintings, notes Lucien.<ref name=Rewald/>{{rp|43}}