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Impressionist Aesthetics

Mary Cassatt: The Woman Who Wasn’t Allowed to Draw

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, an artist, and printmaker hailing from America, was among the Impressionist circle based in Paris. Art by Mary Cassatt primarily focused on the personal lives of present-day women, with a particular interest in their responsibilities as child caregivers. Painter Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 in Allegheny City, a region that constitutes […]

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The hazy interplay of light and shadow in Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Manjeera February 25, ON THIS DAY “Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.” Pierre-Auguste Renoir Renoir’s artwork, characterised by an atmospheric haziness that emerges as a result of his soft impasto brushwork and layering of bright colours, is perhaps the most recognizable out of all the French

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