Cindi Textor is a freshman and prospective math major at Princeton University from western New York state. She is a proud and die hard member of the University Scramble Band, and an all around nerd. Her hobbies include Texas Hold 'Em, Tetris, and procrastination.
She first became interested in Pissarro's factories upon seeing his paintings of the factory on the river Oise in one of the Impressionism and the Making of Modern Art textbooks. Liking the paintings, she decided to explore the topic further, finding other factory paintings even more to her liking, namely, those in urban settings. It was upon her research into Pissarro's personal beliefs that she noticed the contradiction between the artist's anarchist politics and his industrial paintings and realized its potential as a research project.
Since then, Pissarro has become her favorite Impressionist artist, and his urban series paintings among her favorite works of art.