The Easel

28th August 2018

You know Monet and Manet. This female Impressionist deserves your attention, too

Sebastian Smee | The Washington Post | 20th August 2018

From the outset, Morisot’s work was distinctive. Her female subjects had “a profound psychological presence”, reflecting her own experience of womanhood. But she was also expressing life’s impermanence. “Her work’s lack of finish conveys, like no other Impressionist, a sense of evanescence. We do not live long”. More images are here.

21st August 2018

The Otherworldly Luminescence of Mary Pratt’s Art

Anita Leahy | The Walrus | 17th August 2018

It says a lot for Mary Pratt’s art that, as a female painter living on Canada’s geographic periphery, she achieved national prominence. Pratt painted domesticity – “gutted fish, jars of jelly, unmade beds”, elevating these familiar objects by showing “the drama of light. How it falls, how it alters the ordinary objects it adorns … no ordinary object is without a sublime aspect.”

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