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How Did Mary Cassatt Influence Feminism

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In order to properly understand the significance of the artist Mary Cassatt and the influence she had on the focus of feminism, we must take her life into consideration. She was by no means your average woman of the late Nineteenth Century; most women would have been schooled in keeping homes, cooking and learning how to serve their husbands and future children. This never seemed to be a thought in the singular and seemingly solitary mind of the artist in question even though she was raised to be a proper lady. Born Mary Stevenson Cassatt, in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, 1844, the young artist was raised in an affluent and comfortable family. During this time, an education was not viewed as complete until the student in question had traveled abroad and bettered …show more content…

And though it was due to the Salon that her career had taken off she became more and more disenchanted with the strict and unyielding guidelines as it prohibited her creativity, so in the years to follow she experimented with style and color no longer catering to what was favorable to the public eye. Also during this time, Cassatt formed a deep friendship with Edgar Degas, later going on to have eleven of her paintings hang with the Impressionists in 1879 to the love of both the public and critics, two more such exhibitions were held the following two years as well. It was after these three incredible successes that Cassatt had to leave her passions to care for her sick mother and sister for a time, her sister died in 1882 bringing great grief to the family but her mother was able to make a recovery and Cassatt was able to make a resurgence to her life as an

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