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Tuesday 17 June 2014

Mary Cassatt Paintings And Andrew Wyeth Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Often documentation of the social interactions among well-to-do women like herself are the Mary Cassatt paintings. They depicted activities considered normal routines within her sex and class. Tea drinking, theatre going and children tending are among these activities.

Modern Mary Cassatt paintings are declarations of modernity and demonstrations of her rejection of several traditional artistic conventions, despite their conservative and tasteful surroundings. Mary denies the usual compositional primacy given to human forms. She gives inanimate objects equal priority with her figures.

Mary Cassatt paintings shows Mary's dislike for narrative and her devotion to surface arrangement and color as well as to the most advanced artistic principles of her day. Mary is one of a few women, and the only American, to join a group of independent artists, later to be known as the Impressionists. Her invitation to the group came from Edgar Degas.

Andrew Wyeth paintings go against the grain, except for the early watercolors in Maine, which Andrew dismissed as being part of his blue sky period. They are an epoch of art history devoted to the abstract and the visually obtuse.

Andrew has always painted for himself and this is clearly evident in his Andrew Wyeth paintings. His brilliant Garret Room, showing the sleeping old black man Tom Clark, was produced in an impulse from the 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.

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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