How Did Mary Cassatt's Print The Boating Party?

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Marry Cassatt’s print the boating party was a success because the way she painted the woman and the baby looking towards the man riding the boat with the vibrant colors of yellow and red. According to Thames and Hudson Inc.,“ Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was an American painter who, after 1875 lived and worked permanently in France. Mary Cassatt was a painter who was a woman. Both these fact have made a difference to her reputation and recognition in the course of the twentieth century”. The art work resides in National Gallery of Art, Washington,D.C. The size of the image is 35 ½ X 46 ½ . The print shows a family going boat party with the baby looking directly towards the boatman. George Caleb Bingham print fur traders descending the Missouri…show more content…
The woman in Cassatt image looks dressed same as the baby on her leg it looks the both are heading on a vacation or a special event. While George Caleb Bingham the young lady looks tired and the old was looking towards the motion going on in the water. The medium used by Cassatt are dry point and aquatint while the medium used by George is also dry point and aquatint. The George image contain unity the sense of oneness the way it all connects together, the Cassatt’s image does not connect together. The position of which Cassatt painted is located between the eye point and the object being viewed same as the George image. The boating party has more lightness and it has a open color palette. Some certain areas are made visually interesting. Fur Traders Descending the Missouri has more darkness and it does not have a open color palette, some certain areas are made less virtually interesting. George Caleb Bingham uses variety the quality achieved when the art element are combined in various combination to increase the visual interest of the viewer same as Mary…show more content…
Like Manet, who himself admired Japanese woodcuts, she used a close-up view, with the nearest portion of the beast cut off at the edge of the image. But her dazzling color scheme and broad, flat brushwork are post-impressionist in flavor—the color preferences of Gauguin and Van Gogh. According to John Francis McDermott “emblematic image refers to trade, settlement, and the nation’s north south axis-the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and the issue of race. Bingham himself called the picture “French-Trader-Half Breed Son”, emphasizing its racial exoticism”. Mary Cassatt image reminds me of the time I went on cruise with my friends and family. It was a good experience and George Caleb Bingham reminds me of the time when I was in my country. I love fishing then. I usually should to go fishing with my dad and my little dog. According to Bullard, Edgar John “ The subject was probably suggested by a similar work by Edouard Manet of a man and woman in a boat which was exhibited at the 1879 Salon (Boating. The Metropolitan Museum Of Art). Cassatt was later instrumental in acquiring the Manet painting for the Havemeyers, referring to it then as “the last word in painting”. “According to www.metmuseum.org Bingham himself called the picture “French-Trader-Half Breed Son,” emphasizing its racial exoticism. However, the

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