Saturday, June 14, 2014

Mary Cassatt 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.

Despite their conservative and tasteful backgrounds, Mary Cassatt paintings are declarations of modernity and demonstrations of her rejection of several traditional artistic conventions. By giving inanimate objects equal importance with her figures, Mary denies the usual compositional primacy given to human forms.

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.

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.

Occasional endeavors to share with the world, the underlying emotional and spiritual impulses felt by its artist are the Andrew Wyeth paintings. Their realism is tinted with a romantic nature. According to Andrew, the creative process has found a vital part in free, dreamlike and romantic associations. This quality in his work is a sure-fire guarantee that they will be remembered indelibly, if not fondly.




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