Most painters in 1873 wanted nothing to do with smokestacks. Pissarro gave the chimney the same care he'd give a tree. It rises out of the landscape, the smoke blends into the clouds, and the whole thing becomes one. Nothing fights for attention. The river, the trees, the rooftops, the chimney, they all belong to the same world. He didn't see industry as the enemy of nature. He saw it as part of the view.
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