One other such painting is titled La
Lecture (Reading). We see a young girl
sitting quietly, reading a book. Not
even this relatively uneventful subject matter receives clear detail, for it,
the artist comments, is going to end just as quickly as the other busy scenes
did. Either she is going to get up, or
we, the viewers, are going to move on in a matter of seconds. We only get a flashing glimpse of it as the
image which our quickly shifting eyes would gather in the moment. This approach perhaps more than the others
(which we're about to look at) defines how we view Impressionism today—as an
image capturing a moment, the impression of something we felt, experienced, and
is now gone. Berthe Morisot's artwork,
though largely overlooked until after her death at age 54, effectively marked
the consummation of this style.
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