colorful and exciting painting, but it is not
an Impressionist painting.
Mary Cassatt’s The Visitor, on the
other hand, is a marvelous example of
Impressionism. There is a woman seated
and still. How is this different from
the weighty stillness of Fantin-Latour’s
Still Life? Cassatt achieves stillness and
gravity without detail, without careful
transcription. The window to the left is a
morass of abstract color. The woman’s body
is a quick descent into sketchiness. Only
her face is detailed, and this is relative to
the lack of detail elsewhere in the painting.
Cassat does not include a great deal of
physical information on her face.
We often hear the term Post-Impressionism
and it certainly must be confusing to many
museum-goers. Post-Impressionism refers
to the many paths in painting taken in
the wake of Impressionist innovations.
Impressionism made light, color and
atmosphere into primary subjects, not just
supporting actors in a painting.
An artist who attempted to give a
sculptural kind of weight to the exciting
fluidity of Impressionist color and light
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