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A 6 page research paper that analyzes and discusses Mary Cassatt’s painting “Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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American impressionist, is part of the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The following examination of this example of Cassatts art, first of all, offers some
background on the painting, but then uses Feldmans model of art criticism to discuss it in detail. The Discipline Based Art Education model of formal criticism development by Edmund Feldman
is a "four step sequential model" Description, Analysis, Interpretation and Judgment" (Matthew). Background information Mary Stevenson Cassatt is unique in American art history in that she is the only
American impressionist whose work was exhibited along with her French peers in this movement in France and Cassatt was the only American impressionist to achieve a reputation equal to theirs
(LACMA). A Pennsylvania native, she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She traveled extensively throughout Europe, visiting and studying in "Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands," before settling permanently
in France, where she was mentored by and developed a close friendship with Edgar Degas (LACMA). Cassatt, as was typical of impressionists, favored a "light palette and vigorous brushwork," as
well as Japanese influences in addition to modern themes (LACMA). She exhibited some of her more conservative painting in the U.S. and she painted one mural, which was for
the Worlds Columbian Exposition, which was held in Chicago in 1893 (LACMA). While her depictions of mothers and children represent her most famous works, she also depicted "various aspects of
upper-middle-class life," which included "scenes of the boudoir and theater," though, here again, her figures were almost always female (LACMA). She was one of the most notable printmakers of her
era (LACMA). The Cassatt painting on exhibit at the LACMA, "Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child," is believed to be among Cassatts earliest, and perhaps her first, "treatment
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