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Art
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Name
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Art History
of the Western World:
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Date
Due: May 3, 2006
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1400 Through
Contemporary
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You
earned __________ out of 25possible points.
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Worksheet
#10
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Nineteenth
Century
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Explore
the site http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/Artists/c/Mary_Cassatt/index.html
and answer the following questions.
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Mary Cassatt
was an American, but lived most of her life in France. Why did she prefer
to live in France over the United States? How did living abroad help
her career as an artist?
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| What influence did Manet and Cassatt have on each other's career and works? |
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| According the website, what was Cassatt's favorite subject? Why do you think she created so many works on this theme? Mary Cassatt never married, nor did she have children, yet she spent a significant amount of her life around children and caring for others. How do you think her personal situation influenced her work? |
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| Compare and contrast Cassatt's Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child (you can find this image at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sisterwendy/works/mot.html) with the work of another Impressionist, Auguste Renoir's Bathers (you can find this image at: http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/189.html). How are women portrayed in each work? What is the overall intention of each artist and from what point of view are each of the works made under? |
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| What is groundbreaking about Cassatt's imagery? In what ways does she take a very traditional, well covered subject and turn it into a new theme that reflects modern life? |
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| How did the breaking of boundaries by the Impressionists as a group open new doors for women artists? How did the Impressionists as a group neglect the contributions of women and continue the traditional oppression of women artists? |
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