Berthe Morisot (Kunst)

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Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) achieved her professional status and acquired her technical skills against tremendous odds. She was one of the very few women before the middle of this century who managed to become an eminent and influential artist. Because she was obliged to overcome so many obstacles other than purely artistic challenges in order to become an artist, Morisot’s career shows us how contemporary ideas about art functioned within a much broader set of ideas about masculine and feminine roles, and how those cultural concepts changed during the nineteenth century. Edouard Manet, whose younger brother Eugene she eventually married, was the painter with whom Morisot had the closest personal relationship.

Stylistically, Morisot liked to play with spatial illusions and asymmetric compositions. Unmediated contrasts exist between the apparently very close and very far throughout her work. Most idiosyncratically, Morisot liked to push technique to its limits to imply emotional meanings. Even more than her fellow Impressionists, Morisot intentionally left all or parts of her canvases covered with what at the time were perceived as sketches rather than finished paintings. Often, she incorporated only the bare minimum needed to convey the subject matter.
•Art Institute of Chicago
•Baltimore Museum of Art,Baltimore,MD
•Clark Art Institue, Williamstown, MA
•Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
•Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
•Fabre Museum, Montpellier, France
•Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
•Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
•Museum d’Orsay, Paris
•Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
•National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
•National Gallery of Ireland
•National Gallery, London
•National Gallery, Oslo, Norway
•National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
•Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
•Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
•Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
•Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
•Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
•Toledo Museum of Art, OH
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