Mary Cassatt-Impressionist?

[knobl...@bvu.edu]

I'm doing a paper on Mary Cassatt and her role in the Impressionist Era.
Any thoughts at how she compares to the men??

Help me get another perspective...

[Joqual]

In article <1996Oct7.1...@bvu.edu>, knobl...@bvu.edu says...

>I'm doing a paper on Mary Cassatt and her role in the Impressionist Era.
>Any thoughts at how she compares to the men??

I presume you mean how does her WORK compare to that of other
Impressionist artists, some of whom happen to be men? My personal
opinion is that she painted subjects that have a definite feminine look,
but then I have seen MANY paintings and other works of art that have
a feminine look that were done by male impressionists, so what is the
point of your comparison? Another pertinent question might be whether
or not she was as successful as her male peers, but even that is a
purely rhetorical question open to all sorts of erroneous assumptions.

Skirting the issue . . . Jo'l.

[Bonnie Miller]

I would have to say that her palette was lighter in value than most. Her
colors are very soft and pastel in shade with very smooth transitions in
the modelling of contours and shadows. I am not familiar with her entire
body of work, but those that I've seen very often include woman and child.
I have a poster hanging here in my studio that shows a triangular
compostion, featuring mother at the apex surrounded by two young girls,
all figures connnected as if one. It's a very tranquil painting.

[Bruce Attah]

In article <1996Oct7.1...@bvu.edu>, knobl...@bvu.edu wrote:

> I'm doing a paper on Mary Cassatt and her role in the Impressionist Era.
> Any thoughts at how she compares to the men??
>

> Help me get another perspective...

What perspective do you have already? How deep have you gone? How deep
do you want to go? How _widely_ do you want to venture? How is anyone to
answer your question if they do not know these things?

[W.S. Parker]

You are reading into this posting. There's a simple answer to his
question: "yes I have some thoughts." Then you might, in your
graciousness, follow with some thoughts to get the guy started.

[Bruce Attah]

Okay, then, if you insist:

I think comparing the sensual facture of her paintings with that of
Fantin-Latour might be instructive. Making a comparison of her brush
strokes with those of Cezanne might also be interesting.

I think that it is interesting to ask why her paintings tend to look less
like photographs than do those of Degas (not counting the pictures he did
in his last years). Is it because she makes less use of unusual cropping
and frozen motion?

I think it would be intriguing to contrast her representations of the
nuclear family with those of Renoir. Is she a realist and he a romantic?
Is her particular use of perspective an instrument of this realism? Is
the intimacy that she portrays more akin to Degas than to Renoir?

I think that her consistently high-toned, clean palette possibly sets her
apart from all the other impressionists. Am I right, or does any apparent
difference in colour between her and, say, Pissarro in fact owe to
differences in the _texture_ of their painting?

But, how about comparing her choice of subject-matter with that of Berthe
Morisot? Does Cassatt seem more _feminine_ than Morisot? Then, does A.
W. Bouguereau not perhaps seem at times even more feminine still?

The thing is, 'knobl...@bvu.edu' might have considered all of these
matters at length, and many more, or they might all be quite new to
him/her. Some of these might be interesting to our correspondent, and
some not. A few clues would be helpful. Experience shows that very
general queries of the "Tell me about Michelangelo" kind do not tend to
get much response in this ng. For all we know, the person could be a high
school student whose never seen any of these paintings or read about them
or a postgrad whose special area of interest is 19th Century French
painting.

[Vela Press]

Mary cassatt's role in the impressionist era:
1. Biographical info.
a. Art training
2. Early paintings
a.Discuss one example and compare to the movement at that time
1. color
2. Design.
3. Paint application
4. Subject matter
3. Mid life manner
a. Discuss one example and compare to the movement at that time
1. color
2. Design.
3. Paint application
4. Subject matter
4. Late life manner
a. Discuss one example and compare to the movement at that time
1. color
2. Design.
3. Paint application
4. Subject matter
5. Conclusion of comparison and analysis

Good luck - Louis Velasquez

[Bruce Attah]

In article <53kau4$7...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, vela...@aol.com (Vela
Press) wrote:

Philomena Grundy,
Born on Monday,
Drew on Tuesday,
Painted on Wednesday,
Exhibited on Thursday,
Reviewed on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Famous on Sunday,
That was the end of Philomena Grundy.

For it has been written that every artist shall have three periods and a
movement, and thereafter comes the Judgement.

I think it is about time the person who launched this thread rescued it.

[Joshua Heuman]

knobl...@bvu.edu wrote:

>I'm doing a paper on Mary Cassatt and her role in the Impressionist Era.
>Any thoughts at how she compares to the men??
>
>Help me get another perspective...
>

Have you actually tried a library yet? I could go on and on about
Mary Cassatt's role in the Impressionist group, yet how would you know
I was telling the Truth? (I am, of course, assuming that your teacher
does want fact as the basis of your paper.)

Good luck hitting the books!

Joshua Heuman
jhe...@yorku.ca