Berthe Mouchel, woman, artist and committed.
Silvana Editorial| N° d'inventaire | 26982 |
| Format | 17 x 23 |
| Détails | 104 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Milan, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9788836652228 |
A discreet heroine, Berthe Mouchel is a multi-talented artist whose paintings denounce the ills of late 19th-century industrial society. Despite the difficulties of establishing herself as a female artist, she was able to gain recognition in an artistic community dominated by the figure of the painter, and remains today one of the few female artists—alongside Angèle Delasalle, Virginie Demont-Breton, and Léonie Humbert-Vignot—to have dared to address the issue of the working class in their work. In painting as in literature, these women artists focused on depicting daily life and empathetically testified to the economic and social difficulties faced by workers. These women—painters, authors, workers—forgotten by history are here brought back into the spotlight in an exhibition that highlights the links between art and industry.
A discreet heroine, Berthe Mouchel is a multi-talented artist whose paintings denounce the ills of late 19th-century industrial society. Despite the difficulties of establishing herself as a female artist, she was able to gain recognition in an artistic community dominated by the figure of the painter, and remains today one of the few female artists—alongside Angèle Delasalle, Virginie Demont-Breton, and Léonie Humbert-Vignot—to have dared to address the issue of the working class in their work. In painting as in literature, these women artists focused on depicting daily life and empathetically testified to the economic and social difficulties faced by workers. These women—painters, authors, workers—forgotten by history are here brought back into the spotlight in an exhibition that highlights the links between art and industry.