mary cassatt?

Answer 1

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

Cassatt (pronounced ca-SAHT) often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh. She was born into favorable circumstances: her father, Robert S. Cassatt, was a successful stockbroker, and her mother, Katherine Kelso Johnston, came from a banking family. Cassatt grew up in an environment that viewed travel as integral to education; before she was ten years old she had already visited many of the capitals of Europe, including London, Paris, and Berlin.

Despite her family's objections to her becoming a professional artist, she began studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1861-1865). Impatient with the slow pace of instruction and the patronizing attitude of the male students and teachers, she decided to study the old masters on her own, and in 1866 she moved to Paris.

Returning to the United States at the outset of the Franco-Prussian War, Cassatt lived with her family, but art supplies and models were difficult to obtain in the small town. Her father continued to resist her chosen vocation, and paid for her basic needs, but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in 1871 when the Archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled throughout Europe.

Answer 2

Mary Cassatt, Mary (b.1844, Allegheny City, Pa., U.S.--d. June 14, 1926, Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, Fr.), American painter and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists and lived in France for most of her life.
Came from a wealthy family so was able to help the Impressionist painters from Europe by promoting their work in USA. Her brother was the first important collector of her works in America
Her paintings, more than any other Impressionist painter (among them Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Pissarro) featured intimate domestic scenes (e.g. Lady at the Teatable 1885; Metropolitan Museum, New York), with a special emphasis on mother and child themes. Her earlier works were characaterized by a lyrical quality and golden lighting, but by the 1890s, largely as a consequence of viewing a exhibition of Japanese prints in Paris.

Answer 3

She was an Impressionist artist from the 19th century. She was born American but moved to Paris, like anyone else who wanted to make it in the art world. There she met Impressionist artists such as Edouard Manet. She was interested in many of the same issues as the French Impressionist such as the objectification of women and relationships in society. She became very influenced by Japanese prints and used bold outlines and patterened effects with minimal modeling and shading. As mentioned before she was very interested in the intimate relationships of Mothers and children.

Answer 4

In Summertime (above) you can see how she painted bold, pure colors into the rippling water, allowing the viewer’s eyes to blend and make sense of the different hues.It’s a distinctly Impressionist characteristic, and it appears in many of her paintings. You can also go through the book -Experiencing Art Around Us By Thomas Buser ( pages 141 onwards0

Answer 5

An important post impressionist (if I remember correctly) artist that depicted women in her painting doing normal, every day things.

Answer 6

Wasn't she the impressionist artist with "Mothers and Children" (crazy high school art videos that our art teacher used to punish us)?

Answer 7

the paintings are ok