Friday, June 13, 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 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 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.

Going against the grain is a feature of Andrew Wyeth paintings. The early watercolors in Maine that constituted these paintings, are dismissed by the artist as being part of his blue sky period. Andrew Wyeth paintings are an epoch of art history showing a clear devotion to the abstract and the visually obtuse.

Throughout the 1920s, Andrew Wyeth paintings were drawn in a much slower pace, with greater attention given to detail and composition, and less emphasis on color. They were alternately done using two mediums, i.e., egg tempura and dry brush watercolour.

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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