As one of the key figures of Impressionism, Pissarro’s move away from the movement was thought to have signaled the end of it, encouraging artists to develop new approaches and techniques.
This work titled Apple Harvest, which can be found at the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas uses points of red, blue, green, pink, lavender, orange and yellow for a stylized scene of apple picking in the French countryside. The dabs of color have been placed close to one another, forcing the eye to blend them together, a technique also known as pointillism. As one of the key figures of Impressionism, Pissarro’s move away from the movement was thought to have signaled the end of it, encouraging artists to develop new approaches and techniques.