Mary Cassatt is my favorite artist and I first got interested in her because she was from Pennsylvania. I recently discovered that she grew up around Pittsburgh. She is an impressionist artist. The impressionists lived mostly in the 1800’s and their art is described as being “free and sunny”. They liked to go outside and paint.
One of the things you can see about Mary Cassatt’s painting is that she painted a lot of women and children. Artists that came before her painted many portraits where people posed like we might do today to have their picture painted. But in Cassatt’s paintings the people look like they are not posing or don’t even care that someone is painting their picture. There’s one painting called, The Cup of Tea, that’s of her sister that especially looks this way.
Even though Mrs. Cassatt grew up in Pennsylvania, she left here to go to Paris and be among other impressionist artists. It was unusual for a woman to become an artist and she really had to prove herself. A good friend of hers was Edgar Degas who is famous for his beautiful paintings of ballerinas.
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