четвъртък, 12 юни 2014 г.

Mary Cassatt Paintings And Andrew Wyeth Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Mary Cassatt paintings were products of the Impressionist movement in the later part of the 1800s. They were the outcome of a study of the works of the old masters of Europe. Mary left for Paris in 1866 and began her private art lessons in the Louvre.

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.

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.

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.

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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