6.10.2014

Mary Cassatt Paintings And Andrew Wyeth Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Mary Cassatt paintings often documented the social interactions among well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depicted fall within the boundaries of normal routines for her sex and class. These activities include tea drinking, theatre going and children tending.

The early modern Mary Cassatt paintings were masterpiece copies. In 1868, one of these portraits was selected at the prestigious Paris Salon. Paris Salon was an annual art exhibition ran by the French government. The well-received painting was submitted under the name of Mary Stevenson.

Mary's own dislike for narrative is evident in her Mary Cassatt paintings. They are also manifestations of her devotion to surface arrangement and color as well as to the most advanced artistic principles of her day. Edgar Degas asked Mary to join a group of independent artists, later known as the Impressionists. She was one of a few women, and the only American at that, to join the elite group.

The medium for Andrew Wyeth paintings was the less forgiving watercolours instead of oils. His early wet brush works were made up of quickly executed, broad strokes, full of color. Shown to Robert Macbeth, a New York art dealer, these paintings formed the first solo exhibition of Andrew.

That Andrew always painted for himself is clearly evident in his Andrew Wyeth paintings. It was a memory of a four year old Andrew, feeling anticipation and trepidation, in the middle of a Christmas night, with a stocking on his bed, containing a skinny doll stuck on its neck, which started the impulse to produce the brilliant Garret Room, depicting a sleeping old black man named Tom Clark.

Andrew Wyeth paintings were occasional endeavors of sharing with the world, the underlying emotional and spiritual impulses felt by Andrew. They showed a romantic nature to their realism. Andrew has always considered free, dreamlike and romantic associations are vital parts of the creative process. These qualities of his work guarantees their being remembered indelibly, if not fondly.




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