A Wonderful Work Of Impressionism

In the late 19th century in Paris, the painters of impressionism staged a huge art revolution by the way of innovation. They absorbed the nutrition of realism of Corot, Barbizon and Courbet, emphasizing the presentation of light in painting. Impressionistic painters advocated painting from outdoor life, portraying the color changes of objects in the sun, theygave up the brown style which started since 16th century. They used the naturalistic way to present ordinary people and scenes in the scenery and life, without lofty themes or literature figures.Some people like Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renior, Pegas will cross our mind when talking about impressionistic grandmasters, they get their homologous reputations and status in the western Art History. While the majority of us have forgotten a French paintress, who put her shoulder to the wheel and also attended in the eight exhibitions, she is Belt Morisot. This paintress was submerged in the Art History which centered on the male painters, her lifetime was not well known to the people, neither did she become the main representative of impressionism like Monet. However, she made lots of art works using her literary talent as a woman, but also supportedher ideas with perseverance and adamancy, becoming the hard core of impressionism group. Even if the critics call her"madwoman", she still sticked to her art career, she attended the impressionism exhibition in the 1874, 1876, 1877, 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1886, except the year 1979 because of pregnancy.Morisot made lots of art works with her special female glamour, her works advocated magnificence and delicateness, mostly portraying woman portrait and ordinary family scenes. As the most faithful paintress of impressionism, Morisot insisted her innovation principlefor light and color, there full of soft air and sunlight in the works, making it colorful, relaxed and harmonious. Meanwhile, her art achievements won the appreciations from impressionistic painters.In that paternity system society, they woman had to experience much rough and frustration if taking art as their career, Morisot still walked on the way strongly, becoming a successful artist in the man-controlled world, she left us lots of precious works, encouraging the female artists to go on with their work more firmly.