Morisot

Berthe Morisot showed great talent for painting as a young girl. Even though it was unusual for women to become professional artists in the 1800's, Morisot's parents encouraged her to study art and become a professional. She became on of the original members of the Impressionists, a group of French painters who changed the nature of art in the late years of the 1800's. In those days art students visited museums and painted copies of great masterpieces for practice. One day, while Morisot was working this way at the Louvre (a famous museum in Paris), morisot met the artist Edouard Manet. They became friends, and manet invited Morisot to work at his studio. There she met other artist including Manet's younger brother Eugene, whom she married several years later. Women were rarely taken seriously in the art world 100 years ago, but Morisot was always admired, often selling more paintings than Monet or Renoir. Morisot created pictures with thick brush strokes, heavy globs, and bright colors.
Young artst work with thick paints, such as acrylic paints straight from the tube, or textured paints mixed from everyday tempra paints.