{"id":23742,"date":"2018-10-23T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23742"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:27:51","slug":"book-report-mary-cassatt-by-sophia-craze-1990-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/book-report-mary-cassatt-by-sophia-craze-1990-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Mary Cassatt<\/i> by Sophia Craze (1990, 2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookAs I said when I bought the book<\/a>, you could expect me to take a look through this book immediately while nominally watching a football game. Watching football these days really does just provide a pretext for me to sit on the sofa in front of a fire and browse great works of art. Also, to cheer for whatever team is playing the Bears, even the Patriots<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This book is an oversized (which is just right sized for art books, if you know what I mean) full color collection of Cassatt’s work from the different eras in her life (Early, Impressionist, Mature, and Late) and has a little bio of her at the front. I laughed at the beginning of the bio, when it says that she came from a middle class family who spent years travelling in Europe and had horses<\/em>. In some places, middle class<\/em> means “merchant,” and her father was a stock broker with a pile of money, but that’s not upper class, lovey. Somehow.<\/p>\n

I think Cassatt might fall between Renoir and Manet as my favorite Impressionist. Even in her Mature and Late post-Impressionist pieces, her soft lines and brush strokes evoke memory as more straightforward and unabashedly Impressionist pieces do. Cassatt, it must be noted (and will be again when I report on the other book on her work I have), was the only American included with the Impressionists. Fittingly so.<\/p>\n

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