Editing Camille Pissarro (section)

===Abandoning Neo-Impressionism===
[[File:Pissarro - Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather.jpg|thumb|''[[Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather]]'', 1896. [[Art Gallery of Ontario]]]]
Pissarro eventually turned away from [[Neo-Impressionism]], claiming its system was too artificial. He explains in a letter to a friend:

:"Having tried this theory for four years and having then abandoned it&nbsp;... I can no longer consider myself one of the neo-impressionists&nbsp;... It was impossible to be true to my sensations and consequently to render life and movement, impossible to be faithful to the effects, so random and so admirable, of nature, impossible to give an individual character to my drawing, [that] I had to give up."<ref name=Rewald/>{{rp|41}}

However, after reverting to his earlier style, his work became, according to Rewald, "more subtle, his color scheme more refined, his drawing firmer&nbsp;... So it was that Pissarro approached old age with an increased mastery."<ref name=Rewald/>{{rp|41}}

But the change also added to Pissarro's continual financial hardship which he felt until his 60s. His "headstrong courage and a tenacity to undertake and sustain the career of an artist", writes Joachim Pissarro, was due to his "lack of fear of the immediate repercussions" of his stylistic decisions. In addition, his work was strong enough to "bolster his morale and keep him going", he writes.<ref name=Joachim/> His Impressionist contemporaries, however, continued to view his independence as a "mark of integrity", and they turned to him for advice, referring to him as "Père Pissarro" (father Pissarro).<ref name=Joachim/>