First of all, greetings to all women !
Today I want to honor this holiday about a woman, Berthe Morisot, who was one of the few painters of the nineteenth century have to critical acclaim and success, elbowing and being leveraged into the masculine world that did not grant a bit of room for female talent.
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was born January 14, 1841 in Bourges, a family of upper middle class.
The encounter with the painting took place thanks to his mother, who gave Berthe and her older sisters, and Yves Edma a private teacher, Geoffrey Alfphonse-Choco, staunch defender of the neoclassical style, but did not meet the taste of his sisters, getting indeed the effect of removing paint from Yves forever.
Berthe and Edma, therefore, continued lessons with the teacher Joseph Guichard, a pupil of Delacroix, who immediately realized the potential of Berthe, advised to continue studying art. At that time, however, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts was forbidden to women (it remained until 1897) and this prevented Bertha to register. She was not discouraged and continued to study privately with Corot, who painted landscape known strictly outdoors, which greatly influenced his art.
In 1864 his first paintings passed the severe examination of the judges of the Salon, receiving flattering comments, but also some criticism, as those who saw too much of the style of Corot in his painting.
Berthe also had to undertake and address many sexist prejudices of the time, which were unseemly that a woman is interested in painting, and this made it almost impossible to paint outdoors and in public places, making them prefer interior and domestic scenes.
The summary of the difficulties he faced a talented painter in the age in which he lived, perfectly summarizes the Manet, his great friend, in this sentence: Morisot are charming the ladies. Too bad they are not men .
Berthe, through his friendship with Manet, which was also a model, began to attend the Impressionist group, participating in all their shows, except for the edition of 1879, due to the birth of her daughter, had her husband Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard. His work became increasingly important and their home became a meeting place for intellectuals and artists such as Zola, Mallarmé, Renoir, Monet and Degas.
Berthe Morisot now was could be considered in all respects one of the major figures of impressionism French.
He died in February 1895, of pneumonia, only 54 years, and despite a brilliant career, in his certificate of death was identified as 'without occupation' , that a woman's age was much less objectionable ' painter '.
Some portraits of Berthe Morisot executed by his friend and mentor Manet:
I would also like to remind all women who today, March 8, Women's Day, all those women can get free museums, archeological sites and state archives ! Approfittiamone!
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