Article: Cezanne, Pissarro: Two Painters Drew From Other's Work.(Page One)

Byline: Hilton Kramer

To fully understand the exhibition called Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885, which has been organized at the Museum of Modern Art by Joachim Pissarro, the painter's great-grandson (who is also a MoMA curator), it has to be remembered that the two featured patriarchs of pictorial modernism began their public careers as rejected artists. That is, they were stigmatized as rejected artists by the French government's annual Salon. But such were the paradoxes of governmental authority in the arts that the French also provided the means for exhibiting these great painters by creating an official Salon des Refuses, which ...

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