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Berthe Morisot was born into a successful bourgeois family who encouraged her and her sister in their exploration of art, and once Berthe settle on pursuing art seriously did not impede her career. By the time she was 20 Morisot had met and befriened the important landscape painter of the Barbizon School [Camille Corot]?, who introduced her to other artists and teachers. She took up plein air techniques at about this time - painting small paintings entirely outdoors either as finished works or as studies for slightly larger works completed in the studio. |
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Berthe Morisot was born into a successful bourgeois family who encouraged her and her sister in their exploration of art and, once Berthe settle on pursuing art seriously, did not impede her career. By the time she was 20, Morisot had met and befriended the important landscape painter of the Barbizon School [Camille Corot]?, who introduced her to other artists and teachers. She took up plein air techniques at about this time - painting small paintings entirely outdoors either as finished works or as studies for slightly larger works completed in the studio. |
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Like Mary Cassatt Morisot was in her own lifetime and also more recently relegated to the category of 'feminine' artists because of her usual subject matter - women, children, and domestic scenes. However, as a doctrinaire Impressionist, Morisot strove to paint what she saw in her immediate, everyday life. As an woman securely in the haute bourgeoisie she saw domestic interiors, holiday spots, other women, and children. Her subject matter is, without exception, the personal equivalent of that of her Impressionist colleagues. [Edgar Degas]?, the dandy male bourgeois, painted rhearsals of the Ballet, horse races, and nude women in apartments (rather than studios). Claude Monet painted his garden, his children, and his neighbor's haystacks. The female Impressionists painted their social milieu in a way consistent with the Impressionist approach to subect matter. |
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Like Mary Cassatt Morisot was in her own lifetime and also more recently relegated to the category of 'feminine' artists because of her usual subject matter - women, children, and domestic scenes. However, as a doctrinaire Impressionist, Morisot strove to paint what she saw in her immediate, everyday life. As an woman securely in the haute bourgeoisie she saw domestic interiors, holiday spots, other women, and children. Her subject matter is, without exception, the personal equivalent of that of her Impressionist colleagues. [Edgar Degas]?, the dandy male bourgeois, painted reharsals of the Ballet, horse races, and nude women in apartments (rather than studios). Claude Monet painted his garden, his children, and his neighbor's haystacks. The female Impressionists painted their social milieu in a way consistent with the Impressionist approach to subect matter. |
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