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Exhibition on Screen: Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman

Thu Aug 7 - Sat Aug 30
The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars dive deep into the artist’s work to reveal a riveting tale of great social and cultural change.
Thu Aug 7
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Sat Aug 30

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious, and engaging, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.

The astonishing prints, pastels, and paintings in HoMA’s exhibition Mary Cassatt at Work and in this film introduce us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted. 

She printed, sketched, and painted dozens of images of women (sometimes mothers, sometimes hired caregivers) and children, yet never married or had children herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals—the Impressionists—a movement that transformed the language of art.

The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all. 

Director
Ali Ray
Duration
93 min
Year
2023
Country
UK
Language
English
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