"SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Slip into the Manet & Morisot exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor and you might feel like you're eavesdropping on a pair of chatty friends. Wondering, if there's suddenly a spark in the air. Edouard Manet is perhaps the better known of the two. He's really kind of the father of modern painting," says associate curator of European paintings, Isabella Lores-Chavez, Ph.D."
"Blossoming during the heat of the Impressionist movement, they painted, corresponded, and influenced each other's work. Like the motif of a child staring away from a female adult, with both artists painting their own versions back and forth. "And so they're intrigued by this challenge of putting these elements together, says Lores-Chavez. He seems to get it from her first. And then, Manet picks up on that motif to create this masterpiece of the railway, which is also on loan here for the exhibition.""
An exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor presents the decades-long artistic friendship between Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. The pair painted, corresponded, and exchanged motifs during the height of the Impressionist movement. Both artists explored recurring subjects, such as a child turned away from a female adult, producing reciprocal versions that influenced each other's compositions. Manet adopted motifs from Morisot and transformed them into major works like The Railway, displayed on loan. Portrait poses and cropped formats suggest ambiguous emotional tones that range from amused to daring, while both artists remained active in Paris amid political unrest.
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