Washington Post art critic says Édouard Manet launched into ‘painful’ incident with fellow painter Berthe MorisotAlmost 140 years before a term was belatedly coined for the practice of men patronisingly setting women right on how certain things ought to be seen or done, it seems that a certain French painter had already become adept at the art of what must inevitably be called Manetsplaining.Details of this late 19th-century case of mansplaining are laid out in a new book by the Pulitzer prize-winning Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee, which explores how impressionism emerged as a response to the siege of Paris and the attendant civil and political tumult of the time. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/13/edouard-manet-impressionist-condescension-berthe-morisot
Author : Sam Jones
Publish date : 2024-11-13 14:15:22
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‘Manetsplaining’: author describes impressionist’s ‘agonising’ act of condescension
