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Mary cassatt
- 1. Mary Cassatt Woman Impressionist
- 2. Vital Statistics! Born in 1844 Born in Allegheny Pennsylvania Died 1926 at the age of 82 Female Lived in wealthy family
- 3. Personal Background! At age 7 she moved to France Family took her to many museums Good education Family returned to America Attended Art school
- 4. Key Historical Events Civil War Women not accepted in the arts Woman’s rights movement
- 5. Influence of the Art World Impressionists Edgar Degas American Art French Salons
- 6. Stylistic traits Observations of women and children Balance of contrasts Engaging gazes Blending her own colors
- 7. Stylistic Traits Example #1 Observation of women and children Balance of Contrasts Engaging gazes Blending her own colors
- 8. Stylistic Traits Example #2 Observation of women and children Balance of contrasts Engaging gazes Blending her own colors
- 9. Stylistic Traits Example #3 Observation of women and children Balance of contrasts Engaging gazes Blending her own colors
- 10. Reading Outside Observation of Women and children Balance of contrasts Engaging gazes Blending her own colors
- 11. Conclusion Woman Impressionist in time where men predominantly ruled Had a unique style in the time period of art Added to Woman’s Rights Movement Her style was deliberate in every one of her strokes Style changed dramatically from start to finish
Editor's Notes
- My Artist was Mary Cassatt
- At age 7 she moved to FranceFamily took her to many museums where she learned her love for artShe had an average education for a daughter from a wealthy familyFamily went back to America after brother diedWent to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for 4 years and in 1866 went back to FrancePicture of Mary Cassatt taken 1914
- At age 7 her family moved to FranceHer family took her to many museums where she learned her love for artFamily returned to America a few years after moving to France because her brother diedWent to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for 4 years and in 1866 went back to France to study furtherGrew up in a very wealthy familyFather gave her everything she wanted (this was why she was able to convince him to send her to an Art School when women were supposed to have “polite hobbies”Picture was a self-portrait done in 1878
- Was a young girl when the peak of civil war was happeningMain artists were men so she had a hard time being accepted in the art schoolHer life went right through the woman’s rights movement from the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 to The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right voteContributed greatly to the Women’s rights Movement because she was a hard worker because it was hard to make it in “a man’s world”
- Impressionists played huge part in her life, especially Edgar Degas who helped form her styleWhen she first saw Edgar Degas she would press her nose upon a window and marvel at the beautyShe trained with Edgar DegasFamous Impressionists at that time were Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarre, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Alfred SisleyThe art in America was limited and not as popular (why she moved)Salons were art shows and the way to earn money, her original style changed when she didn’t care as much for getting money
- Had a keen observation of women and children and was able to see the connection between mother/childObservation was the greatest stylistic trait, as she changed a great amount as an artist but throughout her biggest theme was women and childrenBalance of contrasts, she had a great sense of balance for diagonal lines or straight linesFacial expressions were always interestingI noticed that in most of her mother-child paintings, the mother would be looking away or down or not all the way open, but the child’s eyes would be wide open looking at the viewerSometimes she would have gazes have meaningsBlended colors well and never used solid colors unless for a reason
- One of older paintings she did for the ParlorsHad a woman as the main theme in a theaterThe gazes tell a story, the woman is looking intently across the theater, you can see she is not looking down, a man is staring at her while he is sitting next to another ladyBlends the colors very well, although because this is an old one from her the colors are a bit darker
- This is a child with a kittenShirt vs. hair vs. background gives a good balance of contrastsThe kitten’s eyes are wide open while the girl’s are focused on himThe blending of colors helps her here with the lightingThe background does not specifically represent something, but the colors suggest the girl is outside somewhere she can be carefree
- Again this she understood girls and women and found them interesting to drawBackground of this picture is a pattern and the nightgown and the girl stand out with a glowing feelThe girl is looking far off into the distance, there can be much interpretation with what she is looking at, or whyHer colors help to make picture feel more 3D
- This picture inspired me for my paintingMy mom and little brother, like this painting the mother and daughter are doing an everyday thing and are together, my mom and brother are reading togetherI put a balance in contrasts in the painting with the bricks vs. windows and the vertical subjectsMuch like her other paintings, my mom’s eyes are facing down while my brother’s are looking up…didn’t mean to but I noticed it later when choosing which picture I was going to paintAll the colors mixed on the canvas and are original