HISTART 180C Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Berthe Morisot, Wet Nurse, Edgar Degas
27 Oct 2016
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Berthe morisot, the wet nurse, 1880: implies a discomfort with the subject matter, inscrutability the faces and shapes lack distinction. Compared to: cassatt, mother and child (paintings: there"s more intimacy and availability, cassatt seeks to celebrate motherhood as a wonderful relationship. Manet, a waitress serving beer: the woman is a spectacle to both serve and entertain the men, the idea of women"s work as a form od leisure (idealized within the context) Morisot, harbor at lorient: argument for the construction of space specific to woman artists: A barrier was required to separate the woman from the genres of the men (landscape, genre, still-life, history, etc. ) Cassatt, little girl in blue armchair, 1878: there are different types of gender constructions in relation to how the painter views and depicts the world. Morisot, woman at her toilette, c. 1875 vs. cassatt, girl arranging her hair,
