_Mary Cassatt at Work_ is on view at the Legion of Honor from October 5, 2024 - January 26, 2025. Plan your visit today: www.famsf.org/exhibitions/mary-cassatt
When I was a young girl, the only work I could find by a woman artist was in a small monograph about Mary Cassatt. It was hidden away in a small town library sandwiched between huge tomes about male artists. I was surprised to find out that women could be serious artists. I was 15 and had just been gifted with a small set of pastels. Finding that tiny book at that moment made all difference to my sense of self and to my life.
yeah, oddly enough there are 10 or 100 male artists to every one female, so not so odd. i also think you grew up in a small town. i grew up with books about famous female artists in 1962....we went to the MOMA and saw there work, and at the Met...
Thank you for this video. Mary Cassatt has been terribly underrated and deserves this attention and much more. I would love to see a longer, more in-depth documentary of her work.
I am a professional printmaker, in multiplate color etching. That technique shown, is very skillful. I knew that she printed, I did not know that she was so skillful. I will look for more of her printed works. The impressionists "invented" acquatint, (acid biting of the plates, using powdered resin to coat the plate) to create fields of color to resemble a watercolor. Cassatt was obviously a forerunner in developing the mulitplate technique; note the pin to "find" exactly where to lay the paper on subsequent passages through the press. Very interesting presentation. I wish I could see the exhibition, friends in SF will!
I love the softness that Cassatt and Monet brought to their works. It puts me in a tranquil place seeing how the vibrant colors are gently presented so as to draw you into the mood without being overbearing to the senses. It's easy to shock with boldness and it's how men typically grab attention away from women, but the gentler side of life is what we need most. Especially now.
Mary Cassatt was one of my mother’s favorite painters. This exhibition made me feel like I finally really came to know her, her inventiveness and her passion for her art. Thank you for this wonderful, moving, beautiful presentation and the excellent video!
I saw the exhibit at the Legion of Honor. I throughly enjoyed every minute of viewing Mary Cassatt’s work. A wonderful experience. Carol from California.
What a wonderful video celebrating your work! She was such a master. It's so good to see her get recognition for what she did, and not see it relegated as being more "domesticated" because of her subject matter.
Fantastic video! I just saw some of her works in Nice and fell absolutely in love with her colours and light. I wish I could come to see this exciting exhibition!
I have always admired Cassatt's pastel drawings. this was a very informative video. I just assumed that Cassatt was a mother because of the subjects of her art. I was not aware of her etching/prints art.
I had often read of Mary Cassett and heard her name in videos on other painters, but this is the first time I've had a chance to actually see her work. It is easy to see why she was well known and respected by the greatest artists of her time.
Thank you for this wonderful tribute to the work of Mary Cassatt I am an international speaker on the value, importance and contribution societally of Motherhood, and the unique gifts that their talents provide. I love Mary Cassat's beautiful, talented work. Thank you so much for this very interesting biographical sketch and acknowledgement of her vital contribution at a breakthrough time in history.
She was determined to have a career as an artist and she did exactly what she needed to do to achieve that. I love her technique of having sections that are worked almost to realism and then other sections are so free and expressive.
I didn't previously appreciate her work particularly but seeing it through the narrators eyes really bought it to life and allowed me to better understand her work - thank you very much from New Zealand
Thank you for this wonderful video. One of the many things I love about Cassatt's work is that she prefigured Cartier Bresson's later statement about photography: "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."
Mary Cassatt had the envious opportunity to study under Degas and was a great exponent of "pastel drawing"---much under-rated in art but which the French Impressionists (including Toulouse-Lautrec) became masters and revived a medium that belonged to an early age of the Rococo.
Thanks I’d not heard of this artist before. Something to delve into. My favourite artist is Hilma Af Klint, who appeared to be doing huge paintings of telomeres. Women painters ought to be celebrated.
One of my all time favorite artists and so underrated. Thank you for showing the world her incredible work, with so much obvious regard & respect. And to hear from female experts was a fabulous extra touch in an industry and area often male-dominated. 💛
Really enjoyed this video on Cassatt especially her move into etched copper prints. I had assumed she was French because of her name so surprised and pleased that she was an American.
I purchased a print of Woman Bathing almost 25 years ago at the McNay in San Antonio. It hangs in my bedroom. Everything she painted is beautiful but her Japanese inspired work is sublime.
I was first introduced to Mary Cassatt’s work in 1989 during a visit to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. They were doing an exhibition of her work. I was perplexed by Cassatt’s pastels of women. There was something different about them, but I couldn’t define it. It took me years to discern women in Cassatt’s presence weren’t portraying the hyper awareness we women instinctively communicate by body posture when a man’s attention is upon us. Instead, Cassatt’s models were relaxed and intimate when reacting to her artist’s gaze. No man could have painted them the way Mary Cassatt did; they would not have allowed men that amount of access to their private lives and actions.
I found Mary Cassatt's wonderful work while researching Georgia O'Keeffe in college and was just astonished by her mastery of color, texture and most especially her subject matter. Given the times she lived through, I can well imagine the positive impact her work must have had on the Women's Suffrage Movement. It was and still is for the most part, a woman's task to nurture children. Shouldn't a woman have a say in the future of her children by voting in elections? Surely this not only encouraged women to join the Suffrage Movement, but must surely have given the men who viewed her work significant pause for consideration and more appreciation and justification for women's voting rights. Culture moves Art. ART moves culture!
To me, what is most special about Cassatt's subjects is the openness of their faces. I get a strong impression of character from their faces. These are not coy, simpering women, on display for the male gaze; they are serious, capable women with complex interior lives.
I've enjoyed Mary Cassatt's beautiful art, and also found it interesting that she was born in Allegheny City, which was annexed in 1907 to the City of Pittsburgh*, my hometown. (* see Allegheny City Society). So if I understand correctly, Cassatt went from Pittsburgh (then Allegheny City) to New York, to Philadelphia? before Paris.
Never realized how powerful and transgressive an artist Cassatt was. She is precursor to Tracey Ermin clearly. Perhaps she left some “private”, confessional drawings, undiscovered, somewhere.
nor the fact that none of them were allowed to paint city life as their male counterparts could due to their condition of being females of the haute bourgeoisie, that’s the real reason for their subjects
So much personal projection maybe the man was exhausted and offered to drive the carriage. Yes women had it hard but sometimes I wonder if we have this modern bias lens and over project the past. As for the caretaking it’s motherhood in it’s purest form. It’s still relatable today.
The technique of having very short narrations one after another of 3 or 4 narrators while showing brief flashes one after another of small portions of paintings is intensely unsatisfying. Three minutes was all I could take.
i love mary cassatt's work and have seen her in museums from Paris and Dublin to NYC and California...but these young woke museum directors attempts to make her into something else is nauseating. Cassat was rich, privileged, never had the struggles that the poor artists had. The way the one lady drools over her work being "tough, and radical" it betrays the elemental fascism of the leftist womans movement. "Toughness" is what fascists worship, and its why so many american kids do not and never will have the maternal love they need, b//c it includes softness, and tenderness, all of which we see in Mary C's art
_Mary Cassatt at Work_ is on view at the Legion of Honor from October 5, 2024 - January 26, 2025. Plan your visit today: www.famsf.org/exhibitions/mary-cassatt
When I was a young girl, the only work I could find by a woman artist was in a small monograph about Mary Cassatt. It was hidden away in a small town library sandwiched between huge tomes about male artists. I was surprised to find out that women could be serious artists. I was 15 and had just been gifted with a small set of pastels. Finding that tiny book at that moment made all difference to my sense of self and to my life.
Isn't it just those moments that make all the difference? You are blessed to have seen that...
That’s is so beautiful ❤
What a life changing moment for you! I’m so glad that you and Mary Cassatt found each other.
Thanks, Yes…….all,” people” can be an Artist…..
yeah, oddly enough there are 10 or 100 male artists to every one female, so not so odd. i also think you grew up in a small town. i grew up with books about famous female artists in 1962....we went to the MOMA and saw there work, and at the Met...
Thank you for this video. Mary Cassatt has been terribly underrated and deserves this attention and much more. I would love to see a longer, more in-depth documentary of her work.
i have never seen Cassatt's intaglio work. like ever.
thank you for bringing them to my attention.
She captured the bond between mother and child so beautifully
Proud to call her a Philadelphian pre-Paris. Our PMA had this fabulous exhibit before arrival to San Francisco.
I am a professional printmaker, in multiplate color etching. That technique shown, is very skillful. I knew that she printed, I did not know that she was so skillful. I will look for more of her printed works. The impressionists "invented" acquatint, (acid biting of the plates, using powdered resin to coat the plate) to create fields of color to resemble a watercolor. Cassatt was obviously a forerunner in developing the mulitplate technique; note the pin to "find" exactly where to lay the paper on subsequent passages through the press. Very interesting presentation. I wish I could see the exhibition, friends in SF will!
Thanks for your added commentary. I noticed the pin registration technique too and thought it interesting.
Wow it’s amazing to see her work through this new light- I never thought of her art as radical but it totally is!
What an incredible woman. A great artist and a great suffragette.
I love the softness that Cassatt and Monet brought to their works. It puts me in a tranquil place seeing how the vibrant colors are gently presented so as to draw you into the mood without being overbearing to the senses. It's easy to shock with boldness and it's how men typically grab attention away from women, but the gentler side of life is what we need most. Especially now.
Mary Cassatt was one of my mother’s favorite painters. This exhibition made me feel like I finally really came to know her, her inventiveness and her passion for her art. Thank you for this wonderful, moving, beautiful presentation and the excellent video!
I saw the exhibit at the Legion of Honor. I throughly enjoyed every minute of viewing Mary Cassatt’s work. A wonderful experience. Carol from California.
magic is never stored, its only given. what a beautiful example of this
Thank you for providing a glimpse into the pioneering Mary Cassatt's life and art! well done!
What a lovely introduction to an artist with whom I was not familiar, but intend to follow-up with additional research. Fascinating. Thank you.
What a wonderful video celebrating your work! She was such a master. It's so good to see her get recognition for what she did, and not see it relegated as being more "domesticated" because of her subject matter.
I hav always loved the work by Mary Cassatt, but I did not know a lot about her life. Thank you for this video. Excellent!
Fantastic video! I just saw some of her works in Nice and fell absolutely in love with her colours and light. I wish I could come to see this exciting exhibition!
I have always loved her work the bright colours bursting through and the human gentleness she portrays in her women and children.
Such a story teller. I love the emotions that come through her paintings. Such aliveness, and love. I also enjoy her use of brush strokes.
She would have been interesting to know.
I have always admired Cassatt's pastel drawings. this was a very informative video. I just assumed that Cassatt was a mother because of the subjects of her art. I was not aware of her etching/prints art.
I had often read of Mary Cassett and heard her name in videos on other painters, but this is the first time I've had a chance to actually see her work. It is easy to see why she was well known and respected by the greatest artists of her time.
Thank you for this wonderful tribute to the work of Mary Cassatt
I am an international speaker on the value, importance and contribution societally of Motherhood, and the unique gifts that their talents provide. I love Mary Cassat's beautiful, talented work.
Thank you so much for this very interesting biographical sketch and acknowledgement of her vital contribution at a breakthrough time in history.
She was determined to have a career as an artist and she did exactly what she needed to do to achieve that. I love her technique of having sections that are worked almost to realism and then other sections are so free and expressive.
She is great. Degas was an art snob and she blew his mind.
Wow, that's interesting. 🌿☕🧡
Amazing artist depicting family life through care for a child 😊😊
Thank you ever so much for the insightful mini=bio of Ms. Cassatt's artistic bio. I have a newfound appreciation for her artistry.
I love this video! What an amazing woman! Can't wait to see the exhibit.
Thank you for this wonderful feature on Mary Cassatt.
Very interesting and wonderful video. It clearly shows the very special aspect of her art,
An excellent production ! Thank you so much. That's the way you do it.
Can't wait for more like this one made about other women artists.
I didn't previously appreciate her work particularly but seeing it through the narrators eyes really bought it to life and allowed me to better understand her work - thank you very much from New Zealand
Wonderful piece! I never knew that much about her and I’m so glad I came upon this video.
Thank you for presenting her as well as her work. Beautiful!
Thank you for posting! Excellent discussion on her work and the back stories!
That made my day. Thanks, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco!
Thank you for this wonderful video. One of the many things I love about Cassatt's work is that she prefigured Cartier Bresson's later statement about photography: "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."
She is my favorite Impressionist Artist. Seeing her work in Musee D’Orsay helped me decide to live and see the work there at my leisure.
Well done!!
wonderful video thank you!
Thank you for this video! I'm really looking forward to the exhibit.
Mary Cassatt had the envious opportunity to study under Degas and was a great exponent of "pastel drawing"---much under-rated in art but which the French Impressionists (including Toulouse-Lautrec) became masters and revived a medium that belonged to an early age of the Rococo.
Fantastic video
Thanks I’d not heard of this artist before. Something to delve into. My favourite artist is Hilma Af Klint, who appeared to be doing huge paintings of telomeres. Women painters ought to be celebrated.
One of my all time favorite artists and so underrated. Thank you for showing the world her incredible work, with so much obvious regard & respect. And to hear from female experts was a fabulous extra touch in an industry and area often male-dominated. 💛
Thank you for this very interesting story. New subscriber and looking forward to seeing what I've missed.so far!
Brilliant. Among the best artists the world has seen.
Her art is beautiful.
Awesome artist love her work ❤
I would love to see her work on tour. As I watched this I realized I've never seen any of her works in person.
💙 Lovely! 🎉
Thank you.
Both Cassatt and Degas's pastel work is heartbreakingly beautiful. Always an inspiration.
Degas’
Wonderful story thank you
This was wonderful. Thank you!
I loved this! Thank you so much!
Really enjoyed this video on Cassatt especially her move into etched copper prints. I had assumed she was French because of her name so surprised and pleased that she was an American.
Love her art.❤
waw! now I want to see that exhibition!!
Pretty impressive. Love her art.
Thanks 👍
Recently visited the exhibition. Wonderful,
How very interesting. I didn’t know about her
Thank you.
I purchased a print of Woman Bathing almost 25 years ago at the McNay in San Antonio. It hangs in my bedroom. Everything she painted is beautiful but her Japanese inspired work is sublime.
Fascinating Cassatt story
Well done.
I was first introduced to Mary Cassatt’s work in 1989 during a visit to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. They were doing an exhibition of her work. I was perplexed by Cassatt’s pastels of women. There was something different about them, but I couldn’t define it. It took me years to discern women in Cassatt’s presence weren’t portraying the hyper awareness we women instinctively communicate by body posture when a man’s attention is upon us. Instead, Cassatt’s models were relaxed and intimate when reacting to her artist’s gaze. No man could have painted them the way Mary Cassatt did; they would not have allowed men that amount of access to their private lives and actions.
The copper plate printing is so beautiful and unique
I found Mary Cassatt's wonderful work while researching Georgia O'Keeffe in college and was just astonished by her mastery of color, texture and most especially her subject matter. Given the times she lived through, I can well imagine the positive impact her work must have had on the Women's Suffrage Movement. It was and still is for the most part, a woman's task to nurture children. Shouldn't a woman have a say in the future of her children by voting in elections? Surely this not only encouraged women to join the Suffrage Movement, but must surely have given the men who viewed her work significant pause for consideration and more appreciation and justification for women's voting rights. Culture moves Art. ART moves culture!
Very interesting!
Awesome artist
To me, what is most special about Cassatt's subjects is the openness of their faces. I get a strong impression of character from their faces. These are not coy, simpering women, on display for the male gaze; they are serious, capable women with complex interior lives.
I've enjoyed Mary Cassatt's beautiful art, and also found it interesting that she was born in Allegheny City, which was annexed in 1907 to the City of Pittsburgh*, my hometown. (* see Allegheny City Society). So if I understand correctly, Cassatt went from Pittsburgh (then Allegheny City) to New York, to Philadelphia? before Paris.
I visit her work at the Carnegie museum of art in Pittsburgh
Many many female artists have been and still are undervalued.
Just FYI, it’s suffrage , NOT suffrange … it’s important to know these variances in language because you are speaking in public and as an expert .
Wow how did they miss that? Otherwise great information.
Spot on, it's vital. 🌿
Incredibly rude and condescending comment.
@@jeaninerumble6503but it's truth...as experts they should know the correct pronunciation...
Oh god you make a documentary where you pronounce every word perfectly. Otherwise nobody GAF.
I have always been a fan of Cassatt's work. when I was in art classes, I was shocked how the ( male) instructors poo-pooed her work.
MOE-nay??
Mon rhymes with bon
Mohn-ay
I've seen her work but I never knew it was done by a woman!
Never realized how powerful and transgressive an artist Cassatt was. She is precursor to Tracey Ermin clearly. Perhaps she left some “private”, confessional drawings, undiscovered, somewhere.
Strangely, this video does not mention the three ladies of Impressionism nor any other women artists that were part of Impressionism.
nor the fact that none of them were allowed to paint city life as their male counterparts could due to their condition of being females of the haute bourgeoisie, that’s the real reason for their subjects
The groom were we see only 1/4 of his face isn't grumpy. He's serene to watch the world too, rather than horse asses.
Feminism projection
So much personal projection maybe the man was exhausted and offered to drive the carriage. Yes women had it hard but sometimes I wonder if we have this modern bias lens and over project the past. As for the caretaking it’s motherhood in it’s purest form. It’s still relatable today.
The technique of having very short narrations one after another of 3 or 4 narrators while showing brief flashes one after another of small portions of paintings is intensely unsatisfying. Three minutes was all I could take.
Music driving me mad...cannot watch this.
I just suffered through thus otherwise well made video and thought the same. Why music if there is constant talking?
This is not ASMR made for you specifically! This is education and entertainment! Deal with music or leave TH-cam!
She would havbe been completely screwed without photography.
she painted what she knew.
Thanks, actually, all subjects are best.. Kind if noticing “ Kids, Families ,etc” are for ARTISTS…..
She and Greta Climate girl share a resemblance
i love mary cassatt's work and have seen her in museums from Paris and Dublin to NYC and California...but these young woke museum directors attempts to make her into something else is nauseating. Cassat was rich, privileged, never had the struggles that the poor artists had. The way the one lady drools over her work being "tough, and radical" it betrays the elemental fascism of the leftist womans movement.
"Toughness" is what fascists worship, and its why so many american kids do not and never will have the maternal love they need, b//c it includes softness, and tenderness, all of which we see in Mary C's art