Mary Cassatt
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Born: 1844
Died: 1926 Main Artistic Movement: Impressionism Nationality: American Floor Found in Château: Second Floor Room Found in Château: Library |
About the Artist
Born in Pennsylvania, Mary Cassatt spent most of her career working and painting in Paris. Her paintings exhibit tender and nurturing scenes, typically of the lives of women (both private and within society) as well as the emotional bonds between mothers and their children. Cassatt's painterly approach and vivid brushstrokes help portray those bonds and the emotion of the women in her scenes, including within her Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet (1890), Tea (1880), and her Mother and Child Before a Pool (1898).
About the Movement
Cassatt worked in the Impressionist Age of art. Impressionism was characterized by extremely loose brushstrokes that were visible throughout the entire painting. This 19th-Century (or 1800s) art movement took landscapes, figures, and objects and incorporated both movement and emotion. Impressionism, in a matter of style, was almost the blending between Cubism and Baroque art; that dramatic and emotional appeal of the Baroque mixed with the inclusion of motion and the passing of time of Cubism. Some of the most famous Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.
Fun Fact: Cassatt is known as one of the three great ladies in Impressionist art, alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.
Resources: Gustave Geffroy, "Histoire de l'Impressionnisme," in La Vie Artistique, (Paris, France: La Vie Artistique, 1894), 268.
Born in Pennsylvania, Mary Cassatt spent most of her career working and painting in Paris. Her paintings exhibit tender and nurturing scenes, typically of the lives of women (both private and within society) as well as the emotional bonds between mothers and their children. Cassatt's painterly approach and vivid brushstrokes help portray those bonds and the emotion of the women in her scenes, including within her Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet (1890), Tea (1880), and her Mother and Child Before a Pool (1898).
About the Movement
Cassatt worked in the Impressionist Age of art. Impressionism was characterized by extremely loose brushstrokes that were visible throughout the entire painting. This 19th-Century (or 1800s) art movement took landscapes, figures, and objects and incorporated both movement and emotion. Impressionism, in a matter of style, was almost the blending between Cubism and Baroque art; that dramatic and emotional appeal of the Baroque mixed with the inclusion of motion and the passing of time of Cubism. Some of the most famous Impressionist artists included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas.
Fun Fact: Cassatt is known as one of the three great ladies in Impressionist art, alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.
Resources: Gustave Geffroy, "Histoire de l'Impressionnisme," in La Vie Artistique, (Paris, France: La Vie Artistique, 1894), 268.
Artworks found in the Château:
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