Mary Cassatt
1844-1926
American Impressionist Painter
Her Style Was Influenced by the following Painters - Manet, Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Sisley.
Education - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia
Cause of Death - complications from diabetes
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About the Artist
Mary Cassatt felt that modern life should be recorded in a lively modern
style. She focused on domestic scenes: mothers and children,
scrubwomen, village girls, seascapes, gardens, cats, and
family life. She sought to capture the overall impression of a scene
through effects created by using light and color in diverse ways.
Cassatt
liked to work outside, observing nature directly and record fleeting
atmospheric effects with his brush.
She believed that light was inseparable from the object it illuminated,
so to capture the light at a precise moment, she worked from direct
observation. Cassatt executed this emotional style with bold strokes and
graceful applications of color. Over time she became less interested in
external reality, and more in the spiritual qualities of his subjects.
In the early part of her career Cassette's art was not taken very seriously - at the time Impressionism was loathed by most art critics and public alike, as outrageous and unseemly and revolutionary.
Mary Cassatt Chardin Quotations
I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work. -- Mary Cassatt
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the
World will suffice for me in the future. -- Mary Cassatt
I think if you shake the tree, you ought to around when the fruit falls
to pick it up. -- Mary Cassatt
No Frenchman of any standing in the art world has ever taken any of
these things seriously. As to Matisse, one only has to see his early
works to understand him. His pictures were extremely feeble in execution
and very commonplace in vision. As he is intelligent, he saw that real
excellence, which would bring him consideration, was not for him on that
line. -- Mary Cassatt
I'd hate to catapult myself into the presence of God or even the death
angel by my own hand, having myself destroyed the life that God gave me.
-- Mary Cassatt
The misunderstanding in art has arisen from the fact that forty years
ago -- to be exact thirty-nine years ago -- when Degas and Monet, Renoir
and I first exhibited, the public did not understand, only the 'elite'
bought and time has proved their knowledge. Though the Public in those
days did not understand, the artists did. ... Now the Public say -- the
foreign public -- Degas and the others were laughed at; well, we will be
wiser than they. -- Mary Cassatt
The Principal Impressionist Painters
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