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A seated peasant woman (1885) by Camille Pissarro.

1/ The peasant women painted by Pissarro seem to be always looking into the distance to the infinite. They seem not to understand the world and, maybe, they want to overcome it. 👉

Drawings from “The Social Turbidities” (1889) by Pissarro 

2/ Pissaro did not understand concessionary marriages, he did not understand male violence, he did not understand the abandonment that leads women to suicide.

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Donkey Ride at La Roche-Guyon (1864 – 1865) by Camille Pissarro

3/ Pissarro did not understand the inequality between rich and poor and how the rich can enjoy their unjust wealth without caring about the gaze of the unjustly poor.

Drawings from “The Social Turbidities” (1889) by Pissarro 

4/ Pissarro didn’t understand the Golden Calf of Capitalism becoming our God, the stock market speculation, the opulence of the church

Drawings from “The Social Turbidities” (1889) by Pissarro 

5/ Pissarro didn’t understand the story of Sophie Grande:  Three years after her mother's death, her father went to prison. Two years ago, a wine merchant took her in as a servant for two pence a day, but the merchant went bankrupt and his property was seized. Not knowing where to go and not wanting to be a prostitute like her older sister, she went to the judge. The judge sentenced her to prison for being a vagrant. Pissarro wrote that he had no words to accompany his drawing in front of the judge's wise decision.

Drawings from “The Social Turbidities” (1889) by Pissarro 

6/ Pissarro didn’t understand misery

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7/ Maybe because Pissarro didn’t understand the inequality of his world, he painted women thinking in an infinite future