Madison Mainwaring, The Paris Review, July 2019:
"...“It’s
annoying they’re not men,” Édouard Manet wrote to fellow artist Henri
Fantin-Latour, after meeting Berthe and Edma Morisot, two sisters from the
Parisian upper crust who were promising painters. He found them “charming” and
feared that because they were women, their accomplishments would inevitably go
to waste. Manet thought the Morisot sisters should “further the cause of
painting by marrying académiciens,” members of the jury who selected
which works to display at the Académie des Beaux-Arts’s annual salon. The
possibility that the Morisots might actually become artists did not seem to
occur to him. Manet envisioned the Morisot sisters might make their mark in the
annals of art as counselors to men in power—by influencing their tastes and
sympathies, and convincing them of the worth of outsider artists (such as Manet
himself).
Edma gave up her practice when she married in
1869. The next year Berthe destroyed the entirety of her own oeuvre and fell
into a creative fallow period..."अतिशय थोर असे चित्रकार एडवार माने (Édouard Manet) १८३२- १८८३ स्त्री चित्रकार-कलाकारांबद्दल वरती काय म्हणतात पहा: "... किती त्रासदायक आहे - त्या पुरुष नाहीयेत... "
"Manet thought the Morisot sisters should “further the cause of painting by marrying académiciens,” members of the jury who selected which works to display at the Académie des Beaux-Arts’s annual salon. The possibility that the Morisots might actually become artists did not seem to occur to him.... "
हा एडवार माने यांचा कमी दोष असून समाज व्यवस्थेचा (पॅरिस सारख्या ठिकाणी!) जास्त असेल पण आजही आपण, १९५० पर्यंत चित्रकारीचे काम कौशल्याने करणाऱ्या, मराठी स्त्रीयांची यादी करू लागलो तर त्यात एकतरी नाव असेल का?
स्त्रिया पुन्हा एकदा शिक्षण घ्यायला १९व्या शतकात लागल्या हे खर पण त्यांना अनेक कलेंचे आणि अनेक व्यवसायांचे मार्ग खुले करून द्यायला महाराष्ट्रा सारख्या प्रगत राज्याला सुद्धा खूप काळ लागला आहे... आणि अजूनही गावोगावी महाराष्ट्रात एडवार माने पसरले आहेत!
'Julie Daydreaming'
Artist: Berthe Morisot, 1894