An American Artist In Paris France
Uploaded by robinred on Mar 26, 2007
An American Artist In Paris, France
In this art exhibition of, “ Paris and the Country Side, Modern life in Late -19th- Century France,“ artists and their selected works present a change from the highly polished style of the Neoclassicism, the Romantic, the mythological, and the historical subjects of pre-ninetieth Century art. Many artists of 19th Century Impressionism are presented in this wonderful exhibition, including an American woman artist, Mary Cassett. For the exhibition, three particular works of Cassatt were chosen for their subjects, style and personal expression in the art of French Impressionism. Mary Cassatt’s simple pastel of, “Simone in a Plumed Hat, 1903” Pastel over counterproof, 24 1/8 x 19 5/8, Scott M. Black, collection. “The Bath, 1902,” Oil on canvas, The Walters .# “Sara in a Green Bonnet, 1901” Oil on canvas, 16 ½ x 13 5/8, Gift of John Gellatly, National Museum of American Art, DC. # Mary Cassatt and her associates are the great masters from the impressionist era with their characteristic styles, techniques, and visual approaches to the political changes of their time. The impressionists would revolutionize a two hundred year tradition of the classical art form in the heart of the French Academy, and the Salon of official exhibition, which, cultivated the art of the French academic system. This major 19th Century French Exhibition presents, Mary Cassatt and her contemporaries, Claude Monet, Pierre Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Edgar Degas and other artists
The Impressionists reinvented not only landscapes and urban scenes but also more traditional subjects, such as portraits of people and the leisure life of Paris. Mary Cassatt’s portraits of children, mothers, and women, reflect a moment in time, innocence, and a glimpse into the family life of Paris, France. Cassatt’s pastel of “Simone in a Plumed Hat” shows a richness of an era in the attire worn by Simone, adorned in a high-style blue bonnet, atop of the girls flawless blonde hair. The artist sets the portrait of Simone at a slight right angle with the young girls wistful long look into an unknown audience, that captures the viewers eye and attention to the simplicity of the artists portrait.
A large part of the paintings for the Modern Life in Late 19th Century France, focused on the life style of woman, as found in James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot’s L’Ambitieuse, 1909 (Political Women), Oil on Canvas, 56 x...