Female Image in Family Within Impressionist Context: Research of the Works of Berthe Morisot & Mary S. Cassatt

• Main Authors: Jia Chyi Shu, 許佳琪
• Other Authors: 高榮禧
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07442005623364960270

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 視覺藝術研究所 === 95 === This study probes into the female family images of Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) and Mary S. Cassatt (1844-1926) in context of impressionism involving the links of sex and power. Firstly, using both of their bibliographies and painting career as base to illustrate the intimate relationship between the situation of a professional female painter and the impressionism movement. Chapter 3 contrasts the time and space of Morisot and Cassatt to the art criticism, male standpoints at that time that stands out the standards to female image characteristics from the society and family; and their feelings and awareness towards situation of female sex through experiences of painting and sex counterpoise. Chapter 4 analyzes the characteristics of female family image including traditional female image characteristics, their resistant strategies towards these characteristics, and their modern female consciousness and the female images presented in the paintings. Lastly, uncover their affirmativeness in female characteristics and the power of motherhood to respond the worship of feminism in motherhood and the negative appraisal toward female characteristics under the overthrowing operation of masculine. Delving into female images and transmutability of experiences they had built to examine the meaning for art practice in female images.