I found that Mary Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania and according to the website called biography.com it stated that she was one of the leading artists in Impressionist movement of the latter part of the 1800’s. She was one of the few women in the 1800’s that were well established who made a mark in the world of art. She was one of the seven kids to of a well-known investment stockbroker and banker, Robert and Katherine Cassatt. She had taken classes such as homemaking, painting, sketching and as well as other to become a good wife and mother. Then moved from the United States to Europe to live abroad for five years visiting many known capitals such as Paris and Berlin and gotten her first exposure to art at the Paris World Fair in 1855. At that time women were not supported in having or pursuing a career, but regardless of the barrier she decided to enroll in the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at 16. Being in a school where the population of girls is about 20%, the male faculty and students were very condescending and resented her presence, viewing art as an achievement or talent. While studying to make art her profession, she was unhappy to find the academy’s curriculum to be unchallenging and slow pace. With the passion of …show more content…
She eventually died on June 14, 1926 near Paris and was buried I the family vault in France. As of 2005, her painting has been sold for more than 2.7 million dollars. Her artwork was inspired by mothers and children in everyday life. A lot of people saw her work as more as “feminine” but critics saw something different that she had brought to the table. Apparently her most important piece of art was called “The Child’s Bath” in 1893 that displayed a close relationship between mother and child that was viewed as worldly and not
...t way, like Varley’s 1930 Vera, she remains a mystery, a forgotten artist, best known for he work as a muse, model, and wife. It is often wondered what kind of work she would have done if she had remained single mindedly focused on her art like the famous Emily Carr
As mentioned above, women’s role were unjust to the roles and freedoms of the men, so an advanced education for women was a strongly debated subject at the beginning of the nineteenth century (McElligott 1). The thought of a higher chance of education for women was looked down upon, in the early decades of the nineteenth century (The American Pageant 327). It was established that a women’s role took part inside the household. “Training in needlecraft seemed more important than training in algebra” (327). Tending to a family and household chores brought out the opinion that education was not necessary for women (McElligott 1). Men were more physically and mentally intellectual than women so it was their duty to be the educated ones and the ones with the more important roles. Women were not allowed to go any further than grammar school in the early part of the 1800’s (Westward Expansion 1). If they wanted to further their education beyond grammar, it had to be done on their own time because women were said to be weak minded, academically challenged and could n...
Personally, I do not know how should I think about feminism appropriately or what is the ideal way to think about this word. Since there are no significant differences between male and female, except physical aspects, the inequality between females and male has remained for several thousand years. it is necessary for human beings in contemporary society to think about this issue seriously because females have to voice for themselves and discriminations have to be eliminated progressively.
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
Impressionist paintings can be considered documents of Paris capital of modernity to a great extent. This can be seen in their subjects, style of painting, and juxtaposition of the transitive and the eternal.
Mary Cassatt was most widely known for her impressionist pieces that depicted mother (or nanny) and child. She was faced with many struggles throughout her life and received much criticism, even after her death in 1926. She found it difficult to receive appropriate recognition for her pieces during her early career. Many were unaccepted by the Salon. Cassatt lived for many years in France after her successful career, which ended abruptly when she went blind. Her talent placed her pieces in many famous museums throughout the world and landed her name among the famous artists of her time. As well as paving the way for powerful women, like herself. She lived during a time of suffragettes searching for equality.
Despite the significant influence that lead to her future career in art, Ringgold reported that she was also impacted by the racism, sexism, and segregation that she had to experience in her everyday life. Positivity and hardships both helped shaped Ringgold’s successful art career in due time.
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
Like many other women artists of her time who were banned from apprenticeship with successful artists, Gentileschi was the daughter of a painter. She was born in Rome on July 8, 1593, the daughter of Orazio and Prudentia Monotone Gentileschi. Her mother died when Artemesia was only twelve. Her father trained her as an artist and introduced her to some of the artists of Rome, including Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, whose chiaroscuro style (contrast of light and shadow) greatly influenced Artemesia Gentileschi's work. Other than artistic training, she had little or no schooling. She did not learn to read or write until she was an adult. However, by the time she was seventeen, she had produced one of the works for ...
Aristotle once claimed that, “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Artists, such as Louise-Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun and Mary Cassatt, captured not only the way things physically appeared on the outside, but also the emotions that were transpiring on the inside. A part no always visible to the viewer. While both artists, Le Brun and Cassatt, worked within the perimeters of their artistic cultures --the 18th century in which female artists were excluded and the 19th century, in which women were artistically limited-- they were able to capture the loving relationship between mother and child, but in works such as Marie Antoinette and Her Children and Mother Nursing her Child 1898,
Working at her father’s clothing shop, she became very knowledgeable about expensive textiles and embellishments, which were captured in her works later in career. She was able to capture the beauty and lavishness of fabrics in portraits of aristocratic women.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London, England on August 30, 1797. She married a man named Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 (Patterson 1). Percy was a poet at the time, and two years after Mary married Percy she wrote her most famous book, Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus (Patterson 1). Based on Shelley’s legacy she was born to be a writer, and it was inevitable that one day she would make a worthy contribution to literature (D’Amato 119). Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a writer and leader of the feminist movement, and William, Shelley’s father, wrote a political treatise in 1793. William wrote about what happened during the French Enlightenment (D’Amato 119).
In this essay, I will contrast and compare the two art movements, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism. I will be concentrating on the works of the two leading artists of these styles Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.
Education for women in the 1800s was far different from what we know today. During her life, a girl was taught more necessary skills around the home than the information out of school books. A woman’s formal education was limited because her job opportunities were limited—and vice versa. Society could not conceive of a woman entering a profession such as medicine or the law and therefore did not offer her the chance to do so. It was much more important to be considered 'accomplished' than thoroughly educated. Elizabeth Bennet indicated to her sisters that she would continue to learn through reading, describing education for herself as being unstructured but accessible. If a woman desired to further he education past what her classes would teach her, she would have to do so independently, and that is what most women did.
The movie, “Mona Lisa Smile” is an inspirational film that explores life through feminism, marriage, and education lead by a modernist teacher at the end of a traditional era. It begins by introducing the lead character, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a liberal-minded novice professor from California, who lands a job in the art history department at a snobbish, all-girl college, called Wellesley, in the fall of 1953. Despite warnings from her boyfriend Paul that a Boston Brahmin environment was out of her element, Katherine was thrilled at the prospect of educating some of the brightest young women in the country however, her image of Wellesley quickly fizzles after her first day of class, in which, was more like a baptism by fire. Her smug students flaunted their exhaustive knowledge of the text and humiliated her in front of a supervisor. However, Katherine, determined not to buckle under pressure, departs from the syllabus in order to regain the upper hand. She quickly challenged the girls’ idea of what constituted art and exposed them to modern artist not endorsed by the school board. She dared them to think for themselves, and explore outside of their traditional views. This form of art was unacceptable by the students at first however, overtime Katherine penetrated her student’s distain and earned their esteem.