Élisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun Oil Painting

The style of this painting is representational, and realistic. The artist whom created this art piece is a female. She was not conforming to how men necessarily depicted women through their point of view. This was more of a personalized type of painting.  This shows beauty, sadness, and elegance, it shows a woman in her society. This particular woman is a dancer, and what Elisabeth Vigee- LeBrun wanted to portray is her own solemnness, and the dancer. Their charm,fragility, and softness, is infinite. The artist is not going by from what Berger is saying necessarily, it just so happens, that the artist purposely wanted to have her model facing away. She wanted the spectators to see what she felt, what the model as well had felt. Even with her color choice is saturated with emotion, but is oh so soft. The figure is relaxed entirely, frail, as well as extremely noble. She represents a woman whom is in a high class.
 How Berger's outlook applies to this method of painting is somewhat accurate. Why? Is due to the fact that it shows how men would find this figure appealing. As well as it shows she is well kept a good preserved woman with class.  This would be deemed atheistically pleasing.  Berger states, "Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated. To acquire some control over this process, women must contain an interiorize it." This is the perfect quote because it literally describes what "perfection" is to the artist "himself". What Elisabeth depicts is more less specific to what "men prefer". Due to the specific model herself, she wanted to be as elegant and beautiful as she could possibly be, aside from her facial expression in which the artist wanted otherwise. Between the dancers specific life struggle, and Elisabeth's struggle to be a free woman the solemness in her face is given. No matter how much beauty is there there is pain.