Who were the two famous women Impressionist Painters?
The most famous female Impressionist was Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the sister-in-law of Edouard Manet. Another well-known woman Impressionist artist was the American Mary Cassat (1844-1926). Both these exceptional members of the Impressionism movement exhibited at most of the group’s exhibitions in Paris. Q. What famous paintings were painted by Edgar Degas? Degas’ most famous paintings include his series of ballet dancers, as well as “The Absinthe Drinker” (1875) (Musee d’Orsay, Paris) and his bronze figurine “Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer” (1879) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). For details of his career and works, see: Edgar Degas: Biography (1834-1917). Q. What style of painting was invented by Georges Seurat? During his short life, Georges Seurat managed to invent a new form of oil painting, based on the colourist technique known as Pointillism, a form of Divisionism, whereby pure colours are placed side-by-side on the canvas and ‘mixed’ by the eye, rather than being
