Starting in the mid-19th century, artists began to contradict the strict nature of art, focused on technique and consumer pleasure. Pissarro was one of many artists who decided to resist these implicit rules of art during the 1850s and later. Coming from a bourgeois family, he began studying art in order to make a career out of it. He soon began to tire of bourgeois life and set out to counter it through anarchist ideals. Due to his fiery personality, he began to question socially acceptable art criticism of the time and, in coalition with a few other artists of the time, started a new art form. Some aspects that made the art unique before the mid-19th century changed during the new movement. Although Monet is considered the most notable Impressionist artist of this era, Camille Pissarro was the father of the Impressionist movement, as evidenced by his contribution to defining Impressionist art, becoming a mentor to other artists and by being included in the eight exhibitions of the new artistic style. The changing characteristics that made art unique in the mid-19th century sparked the new Impressionist movement led by Pissarro which only gave a general idea of ​​what painting really was. The movement was seen as a counterbalance to the very strict, detailed and precise features of art before this movement. The emphasis on technique was immense before Impressionism, and because revolutionary art seemed to reject all of these ideas, it was considered a radical movement. One of the most important factors in the art itself of this movement was the use of light. In Impressionism, artists use lighting to draw the viewer's eye to the painting. It is also used to create mood...... middle of paper ......book: St. Martin's Press, 1977.Bomford, David, Kirby, Jo, Leighton, John and Roy, Ashok. Art in the making: impressionism. London: National Gallery, 1990. Kunstler, Charles. Pissarro: Cities and landscapes. New York: French & European Publications, Inc., 1967. Lacambre, Geneviève. Impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces at the Musée d'Orsay. New York: Thames and Hudson in collaboration with Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1987. Rewald, John. The history of impressionim. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973. Sérullaz, Maurice. The Concise Encyclopedia of Impressionism. Seacaucus: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1974. Shikes, Ralph E., Harper, Paula. Pissarro: his life and work. New York: Horizon Press, 1980. Thomson, Richard. Camille Pissarro: Impressionism, landscape and rural work. New York: new books on Amsterdam, 1990.