In this moving and tragic love story, Berthe Morisot, the only female French Impressionist painter, is a woman ahead of her time. Melancholy, driven, and talented, she is deeply in love with the great painter Edouard Manet, whose controversial works of art inspire cutting criticism. He's a rebel, a revolutionary, and the love of her life. He's ...
Berthe Morisot was the only woman member of the group of six Impressionist painters who's exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874. She reached a pinnacle of artistic achievement, combining her artistic ambitions with her family life. This is her biography.
Berthe Morisot is the best known of the women Impressionists. This biography describes her double life: the conventional life of sister, daughter, wife and mother; and the successful prolific painter. It draws on journals and letters, many of which have not been published before. The author gives a detailed portrait of France and the French art ...
Berthe Morisot has taken her place as a founder of Impressionism and a leader in women's history. Like her colleagues - Cassatt, Degas, Monet, and Renoir - Morisot sought to represent the experience of modern life, a project that for her entailed rethinking what it meant to be a woman in the 19th century. Through close attention to the artist's ...
Berthe Morisot was an important woman impressionist. She refused to accept the limitations imposed by her time, class and gender and became an accomplished and popular painters of the 19th century.
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