Frases de Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot
Data de nascimento: 14. Janeiro 1841
Data de falecimento: 2. Março 1895
Berthe Morisot foi uma pintora impressionista francesa.
Iniciou sua formação com os mestres Chocarne-Moreau e Guichard e prosseguiu sob a tutela do pintor Corot. Também teve aulas de escultura com Millet. No ano de 1863 começou a pintar ao ar livre em Pontoise, onde conheceu os pintores Daubigny e Daumier. A esse período de intensa aprendizagem seguiram-se viagens pela Espanha e Inglaterra. Depois de conhecer Manet, posou para ele como modelo e apaixonou-se por Eugênio, irmão do pintor, com quem se casou. Depois de participar da primeira exposição dos impressionistas, em 1874, a pintora iniciou uma série de viagens de estudo pela Itália, Países Baixos, Brasil e Bélgica. Suas obras foram apresentadas em 1886 em Nova Iorque, e um ano mais tarde na Exposição Internacional de Paris. A obra de Berthe Morisot representa uma reflexão afirmativa da obra de Manet, embora com pinceladas mais longas e suaves, com tendência para a verticalização, numa tentativa de organizar a composição.
Citações Berthe Morisot
„I say, 'I should like to die', but that's not true at all, I should like to get younger.... youth and old age are similar in more ways than one, and they are the two moments in life when one can feel one's own soul which would be a proof that it exists.“
— Berthe Morisot
quote in Berthe's notebook, after the death of her husband Eugène Manet, 1892; cited in Berthe Morisot, ed. Delafond and Genet-Bondeville, 1997, p. 70
„.. the glimpse of the dome of St. Paul's through the forest of yellow masts, the whole thing bathed in a golden haze.“
— Berthe Morisot
In a letter to her sister Edma, August 1875; as quoted in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends Denish Rouart - newly introduced by Kathleen Adler and Tamer Garb; Camden Press London 198, p. 105
Berthe is describing the embankment of river Thames
„My dearest little Julie, I love you as I lie dying; I shall still love you when I am dead. I beg of you, do not cry; this parting was inevitable. I would have liked to be with you until you married – Work hard and be good as you have always been; you have never caused me a moment's sorrow in you little life [Julie is 16, then]. You have beauty, good fortune; use them well. I think the best thing would be to live with your cousins in the Rue de Villejust, but I do not wish to force you to do anything. Give a memento of me to you aunt Edma [Berthe's sister], and to your cousins too; and give Monet's [painting] 'Bateaux en reparation' to your cousin Gabriel. Tell M. Degas that if he found a museum he is to choose a Manet [of her Manet paintings]. A keepsake for Monet; one for Renoir, and one of my drawings for Bartolomé. Give something to the two concierges. Do not cry, I love you more than I can tell you.“
— Berthe Morisot
Quote of Berthe's last letter to daughter Julie, End of Feb. 1895; as cited in Berthe Morisot, Jean-Dominique Rey; translation in English, Flammarion, S.A. (ISBN: 978-2-08-020345-8), Paris, 2016, p. 217
„There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination.“
— Berthe Morisot
2 quotes on weather, in a letter to her sister Edma, Summer 1873; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends, Denish Rouart - newly introduced by Kathleen Adler and Tamer Garb; Camden Press London 1986, p. 43
„This project [an Impressionist exhibition in Paris] is very much up in the air. Degas' perversity makes it almost impossible of realization; there are clashes of vanity in this little group [of impressionists] that make any understanding difficult. It seems to me that I am the only one without any pettiness of character. This makes up for my inferiority as a painter.... the truth is that our value [of woman] lies in feeling, in intuition, in our vision that is subtler than that of men, and we can accomplish a great deal provided that affectation, pedantry and sentimentalism do not come to spoil everything.“
— Berthe Morisot
Quote of Berthe Morisot, 1885; as cited in Impressionist quartet, ed. Jeffrey Meyers; publishers, Harcourt, 2005, p. 94
Edgar Degas was the organizing force of most Impressionist exhibitions; this one never took place
„During the day I received a visit from Puvis de Chavannes; he saw what I had done [https://upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Berthe_Morisot_The_Harbor_at_Lorient. jpg [painted in 1869-70] in Lorient] and didn't seem to think it was too bad.... The Manet's [the brothers Eduard and Eugene Manet] came to see us [Berthe and her mother] Tuesday evening, we visited the studio; to my great surprise and satisfaction I received the highest praise. it seems that what I do is decidedly better than Eva Gonzalès. Manet is too candid, and there can be no mistake about it. I am sure that he liked these things a great deal; however, I remember what Fantin says, namely, that Manet always approves of the painting of people whom he likes.“
— Berthe Morisot
quote from Morisot's letter, September 1870 to Edma, in Morisot's Correspondence, p. 32; as cited in Psychoanalytic Perspetives on Art, ed. Mary M. Gedo – 2013, p. 155
„The tall fellow Bazille has done something I find quite fine: a young girl [in his painting [https://upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Bazille%2C_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_~_View_of_the_Village%2C_1868. jpg 'View on the village'] ] in a very light dress in the shadow of a tree beyond which one sees a town. There is a good deal of light, sunlight, He is trying to do what we [Berthe and her sister Edma] have so often tried to bring off: to paint a figure in the open air. This time I think he has succeed.“
— Berthe Morisot
in a letter to Berthe's sister Edma, after visiting the Salon of Paris in 1869, from: Morisot's Correspondence, p. 32; as quoted in The history of Impressionism by John Rewald, (Fourth edition), Museum of Modern Art, 1974, New York p. 643
„It is odd that Edouard [Manet] with his reputation as an innovator, who has survived such storms of criticism, should suddenly be seen as a classicist. It just proves the imbecility of the public, for he has always been a classic painter.“
— Berthe Morisot
Quote of Berthe Morisot, 1884; as cited in Impressionist quartet, ed. Jeffrey Meyers; publishers, Harcourt, 2005, pp. 124-125
„Men readily believe that they will fill a whole life; but for my part, I believe that however fond one is of one's husband, one does not relinquish a life of work without some difficulty; affection is a very pretty thing provided it is coupled with something to fill one's day; that something, for you, I see as motherhood.“
— Berthe Morisot
in a letter to her sister Edma Morisot, 23 April 1869; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis Rouart; Camden, London 1986 / Kinston, R. I. Moyer Bell, 1989, p. 29
„.. scumbled froth.... capable of indicating a mouth, eyes, a nose with a single stroke of the brush, the rest of the face modeled by the perfect accuracy of these indications.“
— Berthe Morisot
Quote of her notebooks about rendering, 1885-86; as cited in Berthe Morisot, ed. Delafond and Genet-Bondeville, 1997, p. 46
„These last days [of Manet, dying] were very painful. Poor Edouard suffered atrociously. His agony was horrible, death in one of its most appealing forms, that I once again witnessed at a very close range. If you add to these almost physical emotions my old bond of friendship with Edouard, a entire past of youth and work suddenly ending, you will know that I am devastated.“
— Berthe Morisot
in a letter to her sister Edma, April 1883; as quoted in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends Denish Rouart - newly introduced by Kathleen Adler and Tamer Garb; Camden Press London 198, p. 131
„I will achieve it only [being an artist] by perseverance, and by openly asserting my determination to emancipate myself, [but].... I both lament and envy your [Edma's] fate. Bichette [her niece] helps me to understand maternal love; she comes onto my bed every morning and plays so sweetly.... life gets more complicated by the day here now I am gripped by the desire to have children, that' all I need.“
— Berthe Morisot
in an unpublished extract from a letter of Berthe to Edma, written in 1869; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis Rouart; Camden, London 1986 / Kinston, R. I. Moyer Bell, 1989, p. 31 (private collection)
„As I admired it [a red pencil and chalk drawing by Degas of a young mother, nursing her child] he showed me a whole series done from the same model and with the same sort of rhythm. He is a draughtsman of the first order; it would be interesting to show all these preparatory studies for a painting to the public, which generally imagines that the impressionists work in a very casual way. I do not think it possible to go further in the rendering of form.“
— Berthe Morisot
note in Berthe's Journal, Jan. 1886; as quoted in The Private Lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, pp. 262-263
Berthe visited Degas in his studio
„He [Manet] came about one o'clock [the day for submitting works for The Paris Salon of 1870]. he found it [ [https://upload. wikimedia. org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Berthe_Morisot_006. jpg 'Reading'], Berthe's double-portrait of her mother with her pregnant sister Edma] very good, except for the lower parts of the dress. He took the brushes and put in a few accents.... mother was in ecstasies. That is where my misfortune began. Once started, nothing could stop him, from the skirt he went to the bust, from the bust to the head, from the head to the background. He cracked a thousand jokes, laughed like a madman, handed me the palette, took it back; finally by five o'clock in the afternoon we had made the best caricature you have ever seen.“
— Berthe Morisot
In a letter, Winter of 1869; as quoted in The Private Lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, pp. 62-63
Manet was 'correcting' in her painting, fresh-made by Berthe; after some desperate hours Berthe recovered the painting, and resubmitted it in the nick of time. The jury of the Salon accepted it and she was even complimented on her work
