The picture is in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and is known as Portrait of Berthe Morisot, Berthe Morisot in a black hat, or Young lady in a black hat. It features fellow painter Berthe Morisot in a black mourning gown, holding a bouquet of violets that is barely visible. Édouard Manet painted Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets in 1872. Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets – Édouard Manet The next year, it was purchased for 425 francs by the merchant ‘Père’ Martin. It was then presented in London at an exhibition organized by his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, making it one of the first Impressionist paintings to be shown in England, however neither showing sold. In 1874, La Loge was featured in the Impressionists’ first group show, which elicited mixed reactions. Going to the theatre was about being seen as much as it was about enjoying the play, and as the lady makes her presence known, her partner scans the crowd via his opera-glasses. His brother Edmond, a journalist and art critic, was the guy. Nini Lopez, Renoir’s new model who would appear in fourteen of his works over the following several years, modeled for the lady. The picture portrays a young couple sitting in a box at a Parisian theater. It is part of the Courtauld Institute of Art’s collection in London. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1874 oil painting La Loge. Little Girl in a Blue Armchair – Mary Cassatt While their main focus was on landscapes they still produced hundreds of Impressionist portraits often of family members and friends. Other painters concentrated on cityscapes and scenes from mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Parisian life. Numerous Impressionists painted images of nature or people interacting in a natural context. While Impressionist artists focused on the world around them, they strove to portray their themes in a manner that highlighted the most beautiful parts of social life and the natural environment. Realist artists worked diligently to capture their surroundings, whereas the Impressionist style was established to emphasize the pleasant parts of life and society over negative occurrences or interactions. The eye of an artist only sees what’s unique and evanescent – a fleck of sunlight on drapes and hair, a half-smile, a windswept dress… An impressionist person is a bundle of positive and highly transient emotions, and images on impressionist portraits feel flimsy and ephemeral.The Impressionists painted in a manner comparable to that of the preceding Realism period, which showed situations with as much precision as possible in terms of colors, forms, perspectives, and other characteristics. What looks familiar and feels stable in real life, here turns blurry and elusive. And so, impressionist portraits are very dynamic and light. Portraits look like an image of a stranger you glanced at in the street and passed by – you don’s stop to have a better look and you don’t really care, it’s just the first impression. The artists strive to capture a fleeting moment, momentary pleasures, passing impressions of everyday life in its rapid pace. The portraits turn out exaggerated images of a representative of a certain group mostly devoid of individual traits.Īs for impressionism, it did not have a grave philosophical background as a style, but did have a strong emotional and aesthetic message.
Realists, on the other hand, depict a “type” – a representative of a class, a profession or a nationality, not an average one, but the collective type possessing the most characteristic features of the group developed to the utmost quality. These portraits breathe of passion, vehement emotions and pathos, they feel restless, they take a person out of the comfort zone and throw into the whirlpool of endless fight between nature and time, time and civilization, the passions and the obligations, the morals and the dreams. The romantic artists portrayed people in critical moment of struggle, inner conflict, the situations of hard choices and life-changing circumstances. You look at the paintings and you feel them differently. Is it just the artistic vision of a model, the abilities of an artist, or is it different depending on a style? What’s the difference between impressionist and, say, romanticist or realist portraits? Well, for one thing, the message is totally different… A person will look different in portraits by different artists.
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