Morisot, Berthe
Morisot, Berthe (b. Jan. 14, 1841, Bourges, Fr.--d.
March 2, 1895, Paris)
French
painter and printmaker. The first woman to join the circle of the French
impressionist painters, she exhibited in all but one of their shows, and,
despite the protests of friends and family, continued to participate in their
struggle for recognition.
Born
into a family of wealth and culture, Morisot received the conventional lessons
in drawing and painting. She went firmly against convention, however, in
choosing to take these pursuits seriously and make them her life's work. Having
studied for a time under Camille Corot, she later began her long friendship
with Edouard Manet, who became her brother-in-law in 1874 and was the most
important single influence on the development of her style. Unlike most of the
other impressionists, who were then intensely engaged in optical experiments
with color, Morisot and Manet agreed on a more conservative approach, confining
their use of color to a naturalistic framework. Morisot, however, did encourage
Manet to adopt the impressionists' high-keyed palette and to abandon the use of
black. Her own carefully composed, brightly hued canvases are often studies of
women, either out-of-doors or in domestic settings. Morisot and American artist
Mary Cassatt are generally considered the most important women painters of the
later 19th century.
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