Monday, June 16, 2014

Mary Cassatt And Andrew Wyeth Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Often documentation of the social interactions among well-to-do women like herself are the Mary Cassatt paintings. They depicted activities considered normal routines within her sex and class. Tea drinking, theatre going and children tending are among these activities.

Despite their conservative and tasteful backgrounds, modern 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.

Later on, Mary Cassatt paintings became artistic experimentations with its bright colors and unflattering accuracy of its subjects. They became famous for their portraits of women in everyday domestic settings, particularly of mothers with their children. They were unconventional in their direct and honest nature, in contrast to the Madonnas and cherubs of the Renaissance.

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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