Please turn each page of your packet into a paragraph. Mary Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 22nd, 1844. She was one of seven siblings, two of which died during infancy. She was born into a wealthy family as her father, Robert, was a stock broker and land agent. Her mother, Katherine, also came from a wealthy banking family and was well educated. With this wealth, she grew up in a well educated environment. When Cassatt was around six years old, she moved eastward to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, then to Philadelphia area where she started schooling. Her family thought that traveling was important for their children’s education. Cassatt first moved to France then to Germany. The family had moved to Germany so that one son could …show more content…
receive medical attention and the other to continue to pursue his studies in engineering. Cassatt spent five years in Europe, where she learned French and German. It was during her time in Europe that she visited the Paris World’s Fair of 1855 and met Degas and Pissarro. Later that year, Cassatt returned to the United States and continued to live there for a few years. When Cassatt was sixteen years old, she enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Despite her father’s disapproval of her pursuit of art as a career. In 1866, Cassatt moved to Paris because she found the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ pace of teaching was too slow and wanted a harder challenge. In Paris, she studied privately with masters who taught at École des Beaux-Art, one of the most prestigious art schools in the world. During her time at the Beaux arts, she spent her time copying pieces of artwork that she found in the world renowned museum, the Louvre. At this time, she was taught under Jean-Léon Gérôme, a French painter and sculptor in the style now know as academicism. Jean-Léon Gérôme had a big influence on the art world, especially on his students such as Cassatt and Thomas Eakins. Thomas Eakins is an American realist painter, photographer, and sculptor. At sixteen years old, Cassatt decided to disobey her father and enrolled into a art school.
As a result, her father would not pay for the costs to pursue her art career. With the support of her mother, Cassatt worked hard to appear in various exhibitions in order to continue her dream of becoming an artist. Not only did her father restrict her by making her pay for her own materials, as a woman, she did not have access to certain sources as many of her male peers had. Cassatt developed her painting skills and styles by learning from famous artists. Cassatt had many mentors such as Jean-Léon Gérôme and Thomas Couture. She was also influenced by many Japanese artists such as Kitagawa Utamaro. Kitagawa Utamaro’s artwork displayed simple modern shapes and is known for painting women with exaggerated and elongated features. This Japanese artist influenced her to printmaking and the use of basic shapes in her art pieces such as “The Bath”(1891). Mary Cassatt was influenced by the artist Edgar Degas and would often go to a local art dealer sometimes to stare at his pieces of artwork. One day, Degas himself asked if Cassatt would like to join his group of artists. The group included Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro. Degas encouraged her in her work by inviting Cassatt to meet other artists and see new paintings. During her many years of art, she would copy the work of other famous artworks and add details from those paintings in her own work. The deaths of her …show more content…
brother, Gardner, and sister, Lydia, had made Cassatt very upset so much to the point where she could not paint for some time afterwards. Because of the deaths, she would often create artwork that showed the texture of the canvas, which showed sloppiness. After time came, she bounced back and continued her pursuit. In 1868, one of Cassatt’s paintings, A Mandoline Player, was accepted as an exhibition piece in the famous Paris Salon.
Cassatt then became one of the first woman ever to appear in the Paris salon. In 1870, Cassatt returned to the United States and continued her career in Brooklyn, where she struggled to make her way into the art world. While in the US, Cassatt tried selling her paintings in New York, but no one bought them. At around 1871, Cassatt finally got one of her paintings exhibited in Chicago, but it was then destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Fortunately, her luck turned around and she was asked by the archbishop of Pittsburgh to copy two famous religious paintings by Correggio that were hanging in Parma, Italy. With this new job, Cassatt was able to return to Europe and be paid for her work. With this opportunity and cash now, Cassatt was able to stay in Europe to pursue her career. Cassatt’s painting of her mother, which to her surprise, her father liked, was exhibited in New York. This piece received high praise from art
critics. In 1882, her sister, Lydia, died of kidney disease. Her sister’s death had a profound effect on her. For some time, Cassatt did not produce any new artwork. When she did return to painting, some people criticized the paintings of her sister because it showed the texture of the canvas, which was not customary in the art world and made the painting look sloppy. However, modern art critics applaud Cassatt because they view this texture as innovative and lively. A few years later, in 1894, Cassatt moved out of Paris and to a large house in the French countryside. A few years afterwards, she went on a trip to Egypt with her brother. During the trip, her brother became ill and died shortly after they returned. Much like the death of her sister, the death of her brother resulted in a hiatus from painting. In 1911, Cassatt was diagnosed with diabetes, rheumatism, neuralgia, and cataracts, causing her eyesight to fail. On June 14th, 1926, Cassatt died completely blind at Château de Beaufresne near Paris. Cassatt's work combined the light color and loose brushwork of impressionism. She mostly used oil and acrylic paint for her work. Impressionist usually painted sceneries; however Cassatt focused on painting women, especially mothers living their daily lives. Her work typically depicted domestic settings, the world to which she herself was restricted to, rather than the more public spaces that her male peers were allowed to paint. Her material was occasionally dismissed as quintessentially or stereotypically “feminine”. “The Child’s Bath”(1893) is an oil painting that depicted a mother washing her child’s feet. In addition, “Mother and Child”(1890) displays Cassatt’s style of loose brushwork, in which it makes the painting look smooth and well blended. Furthermore, “The Cup of Tea”(around 1890) shows light colors and her loose brush work complimenting each other and blending.
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An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
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Mary Cassatt, an American printmaker, and painter was born in 1844 in Pennsylvania. Cassatt’s family perceived traveling as an essential part of the learning process thus she had the advantage of visiting various capitals such as Paris, London, and Berlin. Cassatt studied to become a professional artist and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She later went to study in France under Thomas, Couture, Jean-Leon Gerome, and others. She spent a significant part of her adult life in France. When in France, she initially befriended Edgar Degas, a famous French artist, and later her works were exhibited among other impressionists. Afterward, Cassatt admired artists that had the ability to independently unveil their artwork and did not
Other members of the French Impressionist Group include, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne and Degas. Cassatt was known as “the painter and poet of the nursery” (Advameg 6). Cassatt painted members of her family and frequently painted her sister Lydia, who resided in Paris, with Cassatt until she passed away after battling an illness for a large amount of time until she passed away in 1882. After her sister’s death Cassatt took a break from painting. (Creative Commons License 14). Cassatt also painted a portrait of her mother entitled Reading Le Figaro (Creative Commons License 15). Later in Cassatt’s career she moved away from impressionism and Cassatt’s new painting style did not fit in any movement (World Biography 6). Her new painting style was simpler than impressionism (Creative Commons License 19). Later in life after taking a trip to Egypt Cassatt viewed the art done by the ancient Egyptians and began to question her level of skill and the artwork that she had created thus far. One of Cassatt’s friends that went on the trip had contracted a disease in Egypt and shortly after their return home, died. These two instances left Cassatt depressed and unable to paint, this loss was emotionally draining and physically jarring and
Cassatt had a powerful response to these Ukiyo-e images partly because of the identical subject matter of quotidian events of women 's daily lives. Ukiyo-e prints appealed to Cassatt also because of its linear delicacy, tonal variety, and compositional strength. Frederick A. Sweet (1966) sorts out the letters, which take in account of Cassatt’s experience with printing. In an oft-cited note to fellow painter Berthe Morisot, Cassatt expressed her excitement: "Seriously, You must not miss that. You who want to make color prints you couldn 't dream of a thing more beautiful. I dream of it and don 't think of anything else but color on copper." Cassatt had known of the prints before 1890, but the exhibition provided a new stimulus and she bought from it many examples of work by the leading Ukiyo-e masters. Cassatt then started her experiments with printing and took her own printmaking in a highly innovative direction in admiration of the Japanese
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