Cam
Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830, in Charlotte Amalie, a town carrying both Caribbean and Danish cultural weight, given that he held citizenship in the Kingdom of Denmark. That dual inheritance — a Caribbean birthplace paired with an eventual life conducted in French — marks the particular geography of his career from the outset.
Pissarro trained at the Académie Suisse and worked across a notably wide range of disciplines: painting, printmaking, lithography, pastel, and architectural draftsmanship all featured in his practice. He worked in the genre of landscape painting and became associated with both the Impressionist and Neo-impressionist movements, making him one of the few practitioners to move between both tendencies. Works such as View of the Village of Éragny and Boulevard Montmartre, Sunny Afternoon place him firmly within a French setting, while his French citizenship and use of the French language confirm how deeply his career was rooted there.
His output was not confined to France, however. Panoramic View of Caracas and La Guaira connect him to South American subjects, and Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas draws on a setting tied to his birthplace. These works, taken alongside his French canvases, point to a career that moved across more than one continent and more than one stylistic allegiance.
Pissarro held citizenship in both France and Denmark and used French as his working language throughout his career. He died in Paris on November 13, 1903, at the age of seventy-three. La Guaira, Panoramic View of Caracas, and Boulevard Montmartre, Sunny Afternoon together stand as concrete markers of the geographic and artistic range he sustained across a career that began in Charlotte Amalie and ended in the French capital.
Quotes by Cam
The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talking to people and making small talk, I don't think that's where music comes from.
Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.
Fans give me yellow things, and I think now what's really fun is, when anyone sees yellow now, they'll think of me. Now it's kind of like this self-fulfilling prophecy: Yellow things come to me.
I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's something I don't want to do, I don't do it. Maybe it's stubborn, but any choices, if you don't like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.
I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.