The Child In A Red Apron Interpretation

The painting “The Child in a Red Apron” was created in 1886. The artist of this painting is Berthe Morisot, she was a French painter who lived from 1841-1895. The mediums she used were oil on canvas. The scene she painted consisted of her daughter looking outside to the snowy landscape. The colors of the painting draws the viewer’s attention to the little girl, the lines also help make the little girl stick out, and the space of the painting focuses on the little girl.

In the painting “The Child in a Red Apron” the painter uses a lot of reds and blues that create contrast. Soft colors in the background contrast with the brighter reds and blues to get the viewer to focus on the girl. In the Baroque time period reds and blues were used to show the importance of the person that was painted. These colors are used on the central figure of this painting to show the child as the most important part of the painting. Berthe Morisot was selective with her colors, she did not use very many different color. Red, blue, light blue, green, brown and a little white were used. The

She has been placed in the foreground and is more detailed than the background. In the middle ground there are trees and in the background a small town can be seen. There is the illusion that the child is in a room and looking out at the snowy town. There is the illusion that there is a window between the outside and the central figure. In the painting the girl is painted in the center to highlight that she is the main focus. She also encompasses most of the canvas. Berthe Morisot painted the girl as the largest figure to show she was the central focus. There is illusion of space, if this painting was bigger it would be like the viewer was standing behind the girl watching her look outside at the snowy landscape. The viewer would feel like they are in a room that is not completely shown in the