“Water Flora”
When I’m floating in a kayak looking at the flora on and in the water, it gives me a calm and transcendent feeling of being carried away. That is how I felt when I painted this painting, {24” x24” acrylic on canvas}.
Breaking Barriers
When people list Impressionist painters they name Monet, Renoir, Degas and Pissarro, but never Morisot.
Berthe Morisot was an accomplished painter, who showed her work in the very first Impressionist show Salon de Paris in 1874. Her fellow painters admired her talent but male art historians decided to ignore her talents. I did not learn about her in college, she was conveniently left out, in Art History books.
Morisot’s paintings have a depth of feeling and subtle delicate quality. With a soft color palette and a delicate touch, her subjects are centered on female and family life.
She had the advantage of being born white, with talent, money, intelligence, beauty, sophistication, and opportunity. With her supportive family she was in the center of an artistic bourgeois home and in the same society circles and friends with Manet and Degas. Socially she was not allowed to gather with all the other painters in bars and cafes. She decided that she was not giving up being a professional painter to have a family. She married Edouard Manet younger brother Eugene’ at the age of 33 and had one daughter. She painted over 860 paintings until her death at the age of 54. That is averaging 28 paintings a year.
To this day she is still not as well known as that of her male contemporaries.
“After Lunch” 1881, Photo of Morisot, “The Cradle” 1872 and “The Psyche Mirror” 1876
Tools in Hand.
“Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.” Morisot
With tools in hand, I paint horizontally on canvas. The fluid acrylic paint is applied and moved not with a paintbrush but with pieces of cardboard in various different sizes. To achieve the desired effect I can apply a very thin, transparent layer of paint, or thick and opaque. Drying time is 24 hours between layers of colors. The overlapping colors will start to buildup and the painting starts to emerge.
Picker, Singer and Songwriter.
Musician Sarah Jarosz new release “World On The Ground.” My top album picks are… “Johnny” with its sparkling, studio-cured folk-rock or the dusky, jazz-influenced subtlety of “Orange and Blue.” as reviewed by iTunes. I still buy music because I want to support the artist and create my own playlist. I hope you’ll check her out on Found and Instagram.
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