mary cassatt
Title: mary cassatt
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 3137 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
mary cassatt
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 3137 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mary Cassatt
"...Mary Cassatt especially liked children, doting on her nieces and nephews and
the offspring of friends. Naturalism and sensuality of a pure, elemental, and
nonsexual sort are the hallmarks of Cassatt's portrayals of childhood during the
1880s and 1890s. An example is Children on the Shore, which she showed at the
last Impressionist exhibition, in 1886. While this seaside subject is unique in her
oeuvre, the close-up focus on the pair of toddlers and
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filiation and descent that would breathe through his work for the rest of
his life, the past feeding into the present and then out into the future. Degas, the
synthesizer of Ingres and Delacroix, would point - through the wild color-fields and
direct manual touch of his later years - to a modernism that was not yet born."
- From Robert Hughes, "Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists"