Sunday, 15 June 2014

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.

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's own dislike for narrative is evident in her Mary Cassatt paintings. They are also manifestations of her devotion to surface arrangement and color as well as to the most advanced artistic principles of her day. Edgar Degas asked Mary to join a group of independent artists, later known as the Impressionists. She was one of a few women, and the only American at that, to join the elite group.

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.

That Andrew always painted for himself is clearly evident in his Andrew Wyeth paintings. It was a 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, which started the impulse to produce the brilliant Garret Room, depicting a sleeping old black man named Tom Clark.

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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