Berthe Morisot

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

"To fix something of what is happening", such was Berthe Morisot's ambition. Catching the light, suspending time, painting through the eyes of a child playing, that of a young woman at a ball or the worried love of a mother, the intensity of a moment and the apparent simplicity of...

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

"To fix something of what is happening", such was Berthe Morisot's ambition. Catching the light, suspending time, painting through the eyes of a child playing, that of a young woman at a ball or the worried love of a mother, the intensity of a moment and the apparent simplicity of life. Since Édouard Manet made her his model, she could have been content to be a muse, but she chose another path: to be an artist. And the one who was one of the rare women of the impressionist movement was also one of the most innovative members, going against the customs of her time and her environment. How was she able to absorb the pictorial techniques of her time to shake them up and become one of the most daring painters? Can we consider her a feminist? Unless she has, through her original representations, renewed the vision of women?
This beautiful, magnificently illustrated work offers a complete and unique panorama of a profoundly demanding work and the influences which, from Monet to Degas, animate it and help to understand it. It sheds light on an extraordinary journey, among the Impressionists and beyond, still largely unknown.

French
128 pages

Éditions Larousse