Art historian Eunice Lipton speaks about the roles of women in art as both models and as painters. Lipton compares the perceived power and sexuality of male artists to that of their female counterparts, arguing that “conventional female sexuality is never characterized by agency and subjectivity.” The character or figure of the artist is, traditionally, always male, and the model is always female: “man is author, woman is other.” She explores and contradicts this perceived dynamic through the work of female painters who were also depicted as the subjects of paintings by male artists, such as Berthe Morisot, an impressionist painter who was painted by Eugène Manet (her spouse), and Mary Cassatt, an American painter who was painted by Edgar Degas. The lecture is followed with questions from the audience.
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