BERTHE MORISOT

 

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SUNDAY feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841-1895) was a French Impressionists. She was married to Eugène Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague famous modernist painter Édouard Manet. In 1861 she was introduced to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, the famous pioneer landscape artist of the Barbizon school. Under Corot's influence, she took up the plein air painting.

Morisot was a regular exhibitor at the Salon, but in 1874, she joined a group of ‘rejected Impressionists’ (by the Salon). The group included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Art critic Gustave Geffroy, in 1894, described her as one of the three great ladies of Impressionism.

Morisot preferred to work with water colours of limited pallette and subtle contrasts, rather than the oil colours. Unlike her Impressionist colleagues, Morisot used clearer forms rather than blurring. She in spite of adopting the plein air painting worked with home and family scenes.

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