Berthe Morisot

In Our Time: Culture

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4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the influential painters at the heart of the French Impressionist movement: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). The men in her circle could freely paint in busy bars and public spaces, while Morisot captured the domestic world and found new, daring ways to paint quickly in the open air. Her work shows women as they were, to her: informal, unguarded, and not transformed or distorted for the eyes of men. The image above is one of her few self-portraits, though several portraits of her survive by other artists, chiefly her sister Edma and her brother-in-law Edouard Manet.

With

Tamar Garb Professor of History of Art at University College London

Lois Oliver Curator at the Royal Academy and Adjunct Professor of Art History at the American University of Notre Dame London.

And

Claire Moran Reader in French at Queen's University Belfast

Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:50.0	Hello Bert Morisso 1841 to95, was an influential painter at the heart of the French Impressionist movement.
1:08.3	While the men in her circle could freely paint in bars, brothels, public spaces, and in the case of Edouamanay, paint Moriso herself many times, she captured the domestic world. Her worksha's women as they were to her, informal, unguarded, not transformed or distorted for the eyes of men.
1:15.2	And when it came to the new fresher ways to paint, Morisso stood out for her diary.
1:20.4	We've been to discuss about Morisso are Tamagab, Professor of History of Art at University College London,
1:26.8	Claire Moran, Reader in French at Queens University Belfast, and Louis Oliver, curator at the Royal Academy, an adjunct professor of art history at the American University of Notre Dame London.
1:38.2	Louis, what do we know about Bert Morrison's family in her early years?
1:49.4	Bert Morrison was born on the 14th of January 1841 into a well-to-do French family. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant and her mother also came from a family of public officials.
1:56.3	She had two elder sisters, Eve and Edmer and their younger brother, Tibus, was born four years later in 1845. It was a very cultured
2:06.9	upbringing. It was a very privileged upbringing. Until the age of eight Bet was taught by a governess Louisa who introduced the family to English
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