Life en plein air- Camille Pissarro and his constant muse: Documentary Exhibition on screen: Pissaro, father of impressionism (2022)

As I come back to write on paintings and Pissarro again after sometime - I remember these below lines:

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

- T.S Elliot in his poem "Little Gidding"

It has been a similar feeling writing about impressionists once again, getting inspired once again, getting giddy like a child, getting the same new and fresh like feeling twice now visiting art and artists especially impressionists.

When I watched this documentary today on Pissarro, it renewed in me the same sensations I felt when I took that art history course almost a year ago which gave me a new direction on which I traveled as far and further as I could to understand painting from ancient cave paintings to the current trends. I was obsessed then but for a few months now, that obsession had subsided and I had moved to other things.

But seems I had never left that obsession and it was just lying dormant, waiting to inspire me again as Pissarro's documentary and his paintings have done to me.

This man of the many impressionists of his time, had almost no controversy in terms of painting women or nudes or other controversial subject matters. However, it seems he painted his one constant muse - the great outdoors everywhere from France, Danish West Indies to London wherever he went. He changed his techniques like a chameleon changing its colors from drawing perfect paintings exhibited at Salon to becoming the father of impressionism to also becoming part of neo impressionists by adopting pointillism technique. His muse never changed, it was there in the great outdoors, en plein air. His life was well lived till his death painting en plein air and that has certainly inspired me.

Our venture voyageride is life en plein air too, only here we paint our thoughts in our minds in the great outdoors of the hills and mountains where we go to explore as did Pissarro, the father of impressionists. What a day to realize all that with the exhibition of the works of a prolific painter whose life was all about en plein air.