The radical art of Mary Cassatt

Well done.

she painted what she knew.

Wonderful story thank you

How very interesting. I didn’t know about her

She captured the bond between mother and child so beautifully

waw! now I want to see that exhibition!!

I visit her work at the Carnegie museum of art in Pittsburgh

She and Greta Climate girl share a resemblance

The groom were we see only 1/4 of his face isn't grumpy. He's serene to watch the world too, rather than horse asses.

Thank you ever so much for the insightful mini=bio of Ms. Cassatt's artistic bio. I have a newfound appreciation for her artistry.

I saw the exhibit at the Legion of Honor. I throughly enjoyed every minute of viewing Mary Cassatt’s work. A wonderful experience. Carol from California.

Awesome artist

So much personal projection maybe the man was exhausted and offered to drive the carriage. Yes women had it hard but sometimes I wonder if we have this modern bias lens and over project the past. As for the caretaking it’s motherhood in it’s purest form. It’s still relatable today.

I've seen her work but I never knew it was done by a woman!

Thank you for this wonderful feature on Mary Cassatt.

This was wonderful. Thank you!

Pretty impressive. Love her art.

Thank you for this wonderful video. One of the many things I love about Cassatt's work is that she prefigured Cartier Bresson's later statement about photography: "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."

I didn't previously appreciate her work particularly but seeing it through the narrators eyes really bought it to life and allowed me to better understand her work - thank you very much from New Zealand

I loved this! Thank you so much!

Many many female artists have been and still are undervalued.

Strangely, this video does not mention the three ladies of Impressionism nor any other women artists that were part of Impressionism.

Thank you for this video. Mary Cassatt has been terribly underrated and deserves this attention and much more. I would love to see a longer, more in-depth documentary of her work.

Her art is beautiful.

Thanks, actually, all subjects are best.. Kind if noticing “ Kids, Families ,etc” are for ARTISTS…..

I hav always loved the work by Mary Cassatt, but I did not know a lot about her life. Thank you for this video. Excellent!

Thank you for this wonderful tribute to the work of Mary Cassatt

I am an international speaker on the value, importance and contribution societally of Motherhood, and the unique gifts that their talents provide. I love Mary Cassat's beautiful, talented work.
Thank you so much for this very interesting biographical sketch and acknowledgement of her vital contribution at a breakthrough time in history.

I had often read of Mary Cassett and heard her name in videos on other painters, but this is the first time I've had a chance to actually see her work. It is easy to see why she was well known and respected by the greatest artists of her time.

To me, what is most special about Cassatt's subjects is the openness of their faces. I get a strong impression of character from their faces. These are not coy, simpering women, on display for the male gaze; they are serious, capable women with complex interior lives.

i love mary cassatt's work and have seen her in museums from Paris and Dublin to NYC and California...but these young woke museum directors attempts to make her into something else is nauseating. Cassat was rich, privileged, never had the struggles that the poor artists had. The way the one lady drools over her work being "tough, and radical" it betrays the elemental fascism of the leftist womans movement.

"Toughness" is what fascists worship, and its why so many american kids do not and never will have the maternal love they need, b//c it includes softness, and tenderness, all of which we see in Mary C's art

She is my favorite Impressionist Artist. Seeing her work in Musee D’Orsay helped me decide to live and see the work there at my leisure.

She would havbe been completely screwed without photography.

The technique of having very short narrations one after another of 3 or 4 narrators while showing brief flashes one after another of small portions of paintings is intensely unsatisfying. Three minutes was all I could take.

I would love to see her work on tour. As I watched this I realized I've never seen any of her works in person.

Really enjoyed this video on Cassatt especially her move into etched copper prints. I had assumed she was French because of her name so surprised and pleased that she was an American.

She was determined to have a career as an artist and she did exactly what she needed to do to achieve that. I love her technique of having sections that are worked almost to realism and then other sections are so free and expressive.

I have always been a fan of Cassatt's work. when I was in art classes, I was shocked how the ( male) instructors poo-pooed her work.

I was first introduced to Mary Cassatt’s work in 1989 during a visit to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. They were doing an exhibition of her work. I was perplexed by Cassatt’s pastels of women. There was something different about them, but I couldn’t define it. It took me years to discern women in Cassatt’s presence weren’t portraying the hyper awareness we women instinctively communicate by body posture when a man’s attention is upon us. Instead, Cassatt’s models were relaxed and intimate when reacting to her artist’s gaze. No man could have painted them the way Mary Cassatt did; they would not have allowed men that amount of access to their private lives and actions.

That made my day. Thanks, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco!

Recently visited the exhibition. Wonderful,

I've enjoyed Mary Cassatt's beautiful art, and also found it interesting that she was born in Allegheny City, which was annexed in 1907 to the City of Pittsburgh*, my hometown. (* see Allegheny City Society). So if I understand correctly, Cassatt went from Pittsburgh (then Allegheny City) to New York, to Philadelphia? before Paris.

I found Mary Cassatt's wonderful work while researching Georgia O'Keeffe in college and was just astonished by her mastery of color, texture and most especially her subject matter. Given the times she lived through, I can well imagine the positive impact her work must have had on the Women's Suffrage Movement. It was and still is for the most part, a woman's task to nurture children. Shouldn't a woman have a say in the future of her children by voting in elections? Surely this not only encouraged women to join the Suffrage Movement, but must surely have given the men who viewed her work significant pause for consideration and more appreciation and justification for women's voting rights. Culture moves Art. ART moves culture!

Very interesting!

One of my all time favorite artists and so underrated. Thank you for showing the world her incredible work, with so much obvious regard & respect. And to hear from female experts was a fabulous extra touch in an industry and area often male-dominated. 💛

Fascinating Cassatt story

I purchased a print of Woman Bathing almost 25 years ago at the McNay in San Antonio. It hangs in my bedroom. Everything she painted is beautiful but her Japanese inspired work is sublime.

Brilliant. Among the best artists the world has seen.

The copper plate printing is so beautiful and unique