Мери Касат
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Мери Стивенсон Касат (енг. Mary Stevenson Cassatt; 22. мај, 1844 – 14 јун, 1926) била је америчка сликарка импресионизма. Већину свог живота провела је у Француској, где се спријатељила са сликаром Едгаром Дега и где је касније и излагала заједно са импресионистима.
Касат је обично стварала слике са темом социјалног и приватног живота жена, као и слике са темом односа између мајке и деце.
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[уреди] Рани живот
Мери Касат је рођена 22. маја у Питсбургу, од оца Роберта. С. Касата, успешног банкара, и мајке Катарине Келсо Џонстон, која је такође дошла из породице банкара. Касат је одрасла у околину где је било уобичајно путовати као један вид образовања. Пре своје десете године она је већ посетила већину престоница Европе укључујући и Лондон, Париз, и Берлин.
Њена породица била за то да она постане професионални сликар, и она започиње школовање на "Пенсилваниској уметничкој академији" у Филаделфији (1861-1865). Пошто је сматрала да је подучавање било сувише споро, и пошто се јавио проблем односа између ње, професора и мушких студената, она одлучује да сама учи о старом стилу сликарства, и убрзо се 1866 године сели у Париз.
Returning to the United States at the outset of the Franco-Prussian War, Cassatt lived with her family, but art supplies and models were difficult to obtain in the small town. Her father continued to resist her chosen vocation, and paid for her basic needs, but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in 1871 when the Archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled throughout Europe.
[уреди] Импресионизам
After studying independently in the major European museums, her style matured by 1872 and in Paris she studied with Camille Pissarro.
The selection jury accepted her first painting for the Paris Salon in 1872. Salon critics claimed that her colors were too bright and that her portraits were too accurate to be flattering to the subjects.
Upon seeing pastels by Edgar Degas in an art dealer's window, however, she knew she was not alone in her rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art," she wrote to a friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it." She met Degas in 1874, and he invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists and her work hung in the 1879 Impressionist show. An active member of the Impressionist circle until 1886, she remained friends with Degas and Berthe Morisot. As with Degas, Cassatt became extremely proficient in the use of pastels, eventually painting many of her most important works in this medium.
Shortly after her triumphs with the Impressionists, Cassatt quit painting to care for her mother and sister, who fell ill after moving to Paris in 1877. Her sister died in 1882, but her mother regained her health, and Cassatt resumed painting by the mid-1880s.
Her style evolved, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, more straightforward approach. By 1886, she no longer identified herself with any art movement and experimented with a variety of techniques. A series of rigorously drawn, tenderly observed, yet largely unsentimental paintings on the mother and child theme form the basis of her popular work.
In 1891, she exhibited a series of highly original colored lithographprints, including Woman Bathing and The Coiffure, inspired by the Japanese masters shown in Paris the year before. (See Japonism)
[уреди] Каснији живот
The 1890s were Cassatt's busiest and most creative time. She also became a role model for young American artists who sought her advice. Among them was Lucy A. Bacon, whom Cassatt introduced to Camille Pissarro. As the new century arrived, she served as an advisor to several major art collectors and stipulated that they eventually donate their purchases to American art museums. Although instrumental in advising the American collectors, recognition of her art came more slowly in the United States.
Mary Cassatt's brother, Alexander Cassatt, (president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1899 until his death) died in 1906. After her brother's death, she did not paint until 1912.
A trip to Egypt in 1910 impressed Cassatt with the beauty of its ancient art. Diagnosed with diabetes, rheumatism, neuralgia, and cataracts in 1911, she did not slow down, but after 1914 she was forced to stop painting as she became almost blind. Nonetheless, she took up the cause of women's suffrage, and in 1915, she showed eighteen works in an exhibition supporting the movement.
In recognition of her contributions to the arts, France awarded her the Légion d'honneur in 1904.
She died on June 14, 1926 at Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, and was buried in the family vault at Mesnil-Théribus, France.
Године 2005, њене слике су продаване по цени од око 2.87 милиона долара.

