Morisot and Her Talented Circle ; Artist's Growth, Search for Own Style Evident
The Washington Times › January 30, 2005
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts' "Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle" tells the 19th-century French artist's life story better than it shows her art. Mainly borrowed from the small Denis and Annie Rouart Collection in Paris' Musee Marmottan Monet, the exhibit is certainly no retrospective, nor does it comprehensively present the artist's illustrious "circle," which included Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Camille Pissarro.
The exhibition shows Morisot (1841-1895) searching for a style in just 47 works - many of them watercolors and drawings - that began with influences from Manet's low-keyed palette; moved to the color- and-light stippling of Monet and Renoir; and finished with the linear, symbolist approach advocated by her friend, the poet Stephane Mallarme.See the full content of this document
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Morisot and Her Talented Circle ; Artist's Growth, Search for Own Style Evident
Raised in a wealthy Parisian family that encouraged her art, Morisot, as was the custom, first copied paintings by the old masters at the Louvre museum, then studied with t...
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