Joachim Pissarro Explained

Joachim Pissarro (born 1959) is an art historian, theoretician, curator, educator, and director of the Hunter College Galleries and Bershad Professor of Art History at Hunter College of the City University of New York.[1] [2] [3] His latest book, authored with art critic David Carrier, is called Wild Art.[4] [5] [6] Pissarro was curator at the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture from 2003 to 2007.[7]

Early life and education

Pissarro was born in Caen. He is the great-grandson of impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. He spent much of his childhood in Suisse Normande with his grandparents surrounded by art and artists. Pissarro studied Philosophy at the Sorbonne and graduated with a M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 2001, he received his Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin in History of Art.[8] Pissarro's dissertation was entitled: "Individualism and inter-subjectivity in modernism: two case studies of artistic interchanges. Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) : Robert Rauschenberg (1925–) and Jasper Johns (1930–)".[9]

Career

In 1983, Pissarro began working on the Catalogue Raisonné of Camille Pissarro under John Rewald. In 1984, Pissarro was the director of Impressionist modern paintings and sculptures for Phillips Auction House in London.[10] He founded the department of modern Impressionist painting in the department of New York.[10]

Between receiving his Masters and his Ph.D, Pissarro began his teaching career as a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. During this time, he also started his career as a curator, being an independent curator at institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Royal Academy, London. In 1994, Pissarro was named chief curator of the Kimbell Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2000, Pissarro began working in New York City as a member of the Advisory Committee on Archives, Library, and Research at the Museum of Modern Art. In 2003, he became curator of the MoMA’s Painting and Sculpture department. He has been an adjunct curator at the MoMA since 2007. Based in New York City for most of his career, Pissarro’s reputation as a highly esteemed art historian has allowed him to work with artists all over the world, contemporary and classical. He continues to work as an independent curator and research consultant. In 2023, Pissarro was named the Cultural Attache of France’s Normandy region.

Teaching

Pissarro has a teaching career that spans over 35 years, and one that has taken him all over the globe. He has taught History of Art at Yeshiva University; University of Texas (Austin); Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia; Melbourne University; and Yale University. He also regularly travels the world to speak and lecture at various Art institutions. Since 2002, Pissarro has been a professor at Hunter College in New York City, where he was a Bershad Professor of Art History, and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries until 2022. He continues to serve as a thesis advisor.

In 1999 he worked as a visiting lecturer at Sydney University and Melbourne University and ran a seminar on the Asia-Pacific Triennial at the Brisbane Art Gallery.[11]

From 1997 to 2000, Pissarro served as the Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator of European and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and was adjunct professor in the Department of the History of Art.[12] Exhibits curated while at Yale include Jasper Johns Recent Paintings (with Richard Field and Gary Garrels, 2000);[13] After looking at Chinese Rocks: Brice Marden: Work in Progress (1999);[14] [15] and Post-Modern Transgressions (1999).

Curatorial Career

Pissarro has had an extensive career as a curator. He has worked for both internationally acclaimed museums and as a self-employed research consultant. He frequently works with contemporary artists, but also draws much inspiration from impressionist artists such as Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, and his great-grandfather.

From 1988 to 1993, he was an independent curator with the Dallas Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Royal Academy of London.[16] Pissarro served as Chief Curator at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX from 1994 to 1997. While at the Kimbell, Pissarro curated Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry with Yve-Alain Bois.[17]

In 1999 he worked as a visiting lecturer at Sydney University and Melbourne University and ran a seminar on the Asia-Pacific Triennial at the Brisbane Art Gallery.[18]

From 1997 to 2000, Pissarro served as the Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator of European and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and was adjunct professor in the Department of the History of Art.[16] Exhibits curated while at Yale include Jasper Johns Recent Paintings (with Richard Field and Gary Garrels, 2000);[19] After looking at Chinese Rocks: Brice Marden: Work in Progress (1999);[20] [21] and Post-Modern Transgressions (1999).[22]

Pissarro supervised the first reinstallation of the modern and contemporary collection at the Yale University Art Gallery and focused on the recent history of the Yale School of Art, leading to an exhibition entitled Then and Now and Later (co-curated with Thomas Crow, 1998). The exhibit featured the art of Yale alumni including Dawoud Bey, Gregory Crewdson, John Currin, Ann Hamilton, Roni Horn, Abelardo Morell, Jessica Stockholder, Peter Wegner, and Lisa Yuskavage.[23] [24]

From 2003 to 2007 he served as a curator in painting and sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[25] Notable exhibitions Pissarro curated include Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865–1885 (2005) and Out of Time: A Contemporary View (2006, with Eva Respini).[26]

A number of Pissarro's exhibitions have toured nationally and worldwide[26] such as:

Personal life

Pissarro is the great grandson of Camille Pissarro,[1] [34] [35] a key painter in the Impressionist movement and the only artist to have his work shown at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions. Camille Pissarro was a mentor to artists such as Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.[36]

Works

Wild Art

Pissarro and art critic David Carrier—both with a background in philosophy—co-authored a book called Wild Art (Phaidon Press), which released October 14, 2013.[37] [38] [39]

The book features 10 chapters of about 50 works each showcasing alternative art genres such as street art, food art, minuscule art, ice, and sand sculptures.[4] [40] Carrier and Pissarro explore artwork that has notoriety outside the world of high art and, according to Huck Magazine, argue "for recognition of artwork that is made and displayed far from the beaten track."[41]

Pissarro and Carrier were partly inspired by the exhibition Art in the Streets (2011) at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which was the first time a major art museum in America curated street art and graffiti.[2] [42] [43] They coined the term "wild art" to mean the world of art beyond the established art world.[2] Wild art is the equivalent of what we call wild versus domesticated animals or plants.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Relative Authority Art Historian Joachim Pissarro Never Wanted To Trade On His Family Name. But Divorcing Himself From The Career Of His Great-grandfather – Impressionist Camille Pissarro – Wasn't Possible. Philly.com. 2014-01-01.
  2. News: A walk on the wild side of art. LA Times. 2014-01-01. Liesl. Bradner. 2013-09-29.
  3. News: Behind the Veil: Questions About Art Authentication. Wall Street Journal. 2014-01-01.
  4. News: What Would They Do with Axl Rose?. New York Times. 2014-01-01. Steven. Kurutz. 2013-10-23.
  5. Web site: Professor Joachim Pissarro: The Global Democratization of Art. Education Online Update. 2014-01-01.
  6. News: Big Small Talk: Oct. 11–18. Wall Street Journal. 2014-01-01.
  7. News: Pissarro. Joachim. The Writers Directory. 2011. Lisa Kumar. 2. 27. Detroit: St. James Press. 1989.
  8. Web site: College of Fine Arts alumnus named curator at New York MOMA. University of Texas. 2014-01-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20150329085250/http://www.utexas.edu/news/2004/01/13/nr_finearts/. 2015-03-29. dead.
  9. Book: Individualism and inter-subjectivity in modernism : two case studies of artistic interchanges. World Cat. 53277298 . 2014-01-02.
  10. Web site: AUCTIONS. Rita Rief. 1984-07-20. New York Times.
  11. Web site: Joachim Pissarro. Hunter College. 2014-01-01.
  12. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-ca-wild-art-20130929,0,1621120.story#axzz2jnyWuiEU
  13. http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2009/SEP/html/col-joachim.html
  14. News: 2013-10-14 . Big Small Talk: Pearl Jam, Jim Beam and 'Boardwalk Empire' . en-US . Wall Street Journal . 2023-11-16 . 0099-9660.
  15. Pissarro, Joachim (2011). Lisa Kumar (ed.). "The Writers Directory". Vol. 2 (27 ed.). Detroit: St. James Press. p. 1989.
  16. Web site: Curatorial Appointments at the MoMA. Art Daily. 2014-01-02.
  17. Web site: Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry. Kimbell Art Museum. 2014-01-01.
  18. Web site: Joachim Pissarro. Hunter College. 2014-01-01.
  19. Web site: Exhibit features new works by Jasper Johns. Yale. 2014-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20121026075543/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v28.n17/story4.html. 2012-10-26. dead.
  20. Web site: Art Gallery expands its exhibit offerings on the theme of Asian art. Yale. 2014-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20121103123404/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v27.n31/story12.html. 2012-11-03. dead.
  21. Web site: Renowned artists to take part in panel and symposium at Yale Art Gallery. Yale. 2014-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150911102310/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v27.n27/story12.html. 2015-09-11. dead.
  22. Web site: Millenial art: tarred, feathered, hung todry. Yale Herald. 2014-01-02.
  23. News: ART; Summer at Yale: A Variety of Shows. New York Times. 2014-01-01. William. Zimmer. 1998-07-12.
  24. Web site: 'Now and Later' celebrates the 'singular and compelling' art being created by recent alumni. Yale. 2014-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150910184714/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/ybc/v26.n25.news.03.html. 2015-09-10. dead.
  25. News: MoMA reunites Cezanne and Pissarro. CNN. 2014-01-01.
  26. Web site: Sotheby's Steve Cohen Show: Auctioneers and Dealers Become Pretend-Museums. 3 April 2009 . Arts Journal. 2014-01-02.
  27. Web site: Monet and the Mediterranean. Kimbell Art Museum. 2014-01-01.
  28. Web site: When light meets water: Monet on the Mediterranean. Smithsonian Magazine. 2014-01-01.
  29. Web site: monet and the mediterranean. Artnet. 2014-01-01.
  30. Web site: Exhibitions: Monet and the Mediterranean. Brooklyn Museum. 2014-01-01.
  31. Web site: The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2014-01-02.
  32. Web site: Pissarro's Day In The City The Bustle And Ever-changing Face Of Urban Life Is Captured By The Impressionist In An Art Museum Show. Philly.com. 2014-01-02.
  33. Web site: A Time To Brush Up On Your Pissarro Museum Features French Impressionist. Philly.com. 2014-01-02.
  34. Web site: PROFILE: ART CURATOR JOACHIM PISSARRO HUNTER COLLEGE. The City University of New York. 2014-01-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20140103050855/http://www.cuny.edu/news/publications/salute-to-scholars/june09/joachim-pissario.html. 2014-01-03. dead.
  35. Web site: Artists in 60 Seconds: Camille Pissarro. About. 2014-01-01. 3 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140103060709/http://arthistory.about.com/od/namespp/a/pissarro_camille.htm. dead.
  36. News: Bade. Patrick. Monet and the Impressionists. Fog City Press. 2003. 81.
  37. News: 7 Wild Artworks That Make The Established Art World Look Tame. Huffington Post. 2014-01-01. Katherine. Brooks. 2013-10-28.
  38. Web site: Wild Art. David Carrier. 2014-01-02.
  39. Web site: JEFFREY DEITCH with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro. 3 October 2013 . The Brooklyn Rail. 2014-01-02.
  40. Web site: Way Out There. 14 October 2013 . We Heart. 2014-01-02.
  41. Web site: Wild Art Book Launch. Huck Magazine. 2014-01-02.
  42. News: MOCA's 'Art In The Streets' Exhibit Invites Unwanted Graffiti. Huffington Post Los Angeles Culture. 2014-01-02. Anna. Almendrala. 2011-04-17.
  43. Web site: Art in the Streets. The Curve. 2014-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20140622165553/http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2011/03/09/announcing-art-in-the-streets/. 2014-06-22. dead.

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