Exhibition on screen | Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman
Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and authentic, a major shift in the way women were represented in art.
The film, which surveys her exciting prints, pastels and paintings, presents an Impressionist artist who was overlooked by the establishment and public, and whose career was full of contradictions like the figures she painted. She printed, sketched and painted dozens of images of mothers and children, but never married or became a mother herself. She was a classically trained artist but chose to join a group of Parisian radicals – the Impressionists – a movement that transformed the language of art. The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars reveal a riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely rewritten. Mary Cassatt and her modern woman were at the heart of it all.
Britain 2023 | 93 minutes | English | Hebrew translation
