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Critical Study Title: Le Potager De Pissarro, Pontoise (Pissaro's Vegetable Garden, Pontoise) Artist: Paul Cezanne Date: 1877 Country of Origin: France Size: height: 48.3 x width: 59.9 cm Materials Used: Oil on canvas This particular piece of Cezanne's work was not commissioned by anyone but Cezanne himself for entertainment value as it is of Pissaro's gardens, however recently it has been displayed at the Addison Fine Arts Gallery in New York. The piece was produced during the movement of impressionism; impressionism is a light, spontaneous manner of painting which began in France as a reaction against the formalism of the dominant Academic style. Its naturalistic and down-to-earth treatment of its subjects has its roots in the French Realism of Corot and others. The movement's name came from Monet's early work, Impression: Sunrise, which was singled out for criticism by Louis Leroy on its exhibition. The hallmark of the style is the attempt to capture the subjective impression of...

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