Focus on Young Girl in a Park and explain the Analysis.
Morisot develops a painting where the forms dissolve to suggest impressions, an atmosphere linked to the model and the place represented. In this work, it is not only the face of the young girl, her features and her physical particularities that interest Morisot, but also her attitude and the impression she gives. The bust of the young girl is very straight, her pose is restrained, with her hands resting on her thighs, and her gaze remains fixed: the whole portrait seems to reflect a certain uneasiness in the young girl, sitting alone on the bench.
This impression of unease is contrasted, however, with a soft, spring-like light, the harmonious shades and tones and the smile sketched on the young girl's lips. Berthe Morisot suggests an impression of movement in the vegetation and in the model's hair, as if a light wind was crossing the garden. The harmony and the softness of the landscape produces a peaceful atmosphere which attenuates the stiffness of the young girl.
The work, by its date of creation and by the aesthetics that develops there – an aesthetics of impression and sensations, of movement and of nature, an aesthetics where forms dissolve, where the touch is broad and where colors and light have a more important role than line and drawing belongs to the current of Impressionism which developed in the last quarter of the 19th century. Morisot was part of this artistic current, alongside artists like Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, with whom she maintained an important artistic relationship.
Impressionism Édouard Manet Edgar Degas Berthe Morisot Pierre-Auguste Renoir