【油画欣赏】玛丽·卡萨特画笔下的母子情，充满了爱！

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

玛丽·史帝文森·卡萨特

美国, (1844-1926)

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玛丽·史帝文森·卡萨特（Mary Stevenson Cassatt，1844-1926），是一位美国出名印象派艺术画家，同时也是被公认为是19世纪最著名的美国艺术画家之一，也是唯一一个被法国印象派画家邀请参加作品展的美国人。她的作品主要以描绘母亲与子女为主题，投入感情的态度以及捕捉到的每一天，每个亲密的时刻是她创作作品的特点。

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Mary Cassatt的作品被永久性收藏在纽约大都会艺术博物馆、美国国家美术馆以及在华盛顿特区的美国国家妇女艺术博物馆中。人们可以在芝加哥艺术学院、巴黎奥赛博物馆、纽约现代艺术博物馆和匹兹堡艺术卡耐基艺术博物馆的藏品中看到她的作品。

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Mary Cassatt的作品受到了西方绘画与日本版画的影响，她将轻快大气笔触与明亮活泼且大气的色调相融合起来。不同于其他印象派的画家，她的作品从不彻底地打破传统绘画方式，而是借助更具有学术性的绘画方式来继承印象派绘画的特点。

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Mary Cassatt出生于1884年，在这个19世纪里，女性画家并不受重视，加之她的家人也并不赞同她成为一名艺术家。但她却在绘画业里取得了不凡成就，令人敬佩，她曾经说过：“画家有两条路可走，有两种生存方式，一种是广泛而简单的，一种是狭隘而困难的。”

Mary Cassatt是一位能在20世纪初期极少数在法国艺术界活跃的女性美国画家之一，擅长表现十九世纪女性活动，她是一位不受世俗拘束，一心投入自己热爱的艺术事业中的女性。她出身于美国费城富裕的家庭中，二十岁时宣称将来要做一名画家，与家人发生冲突。

但她克服了种种阻力，终于得到父亲的首肯，让她就读于宾州美术学院。从此走上绘画的道路。在她五十岁时，接到了一份表现出现代女性的壁画的委托，后来这幅“Mary Cassatt's Feminist Mural Which Has Gone Lost”作品成了她所有绘画作品中最浓彩重墨的一笔。

Mary Cassatt非常热爱印象派画家对光的表现以及色调鲜明的画面，尤其对德加的作品更是喜爱。后来她认识了德加，并获得了参加印象派画展的邀约，此后不断在印象派画展上见到她的作品。德加对她的绘画作品也赞不绝口。两人建立了长久友谊。法国作家左拉也对她的画作极为赞赏，著名印象派画家塞尚、莫奈、雷诺阿等也将MaryCassatt引为知己。

作为一个在欧洲生活多年的美国画家，Mary Cassatt始终保持了自己独特的绘画方式，虽然非常热衷传统印象派艺术，但是却始终保持有自己的特色，她的画作有一种稳定、清晰、朴实的风格，这是她作为一个追求独立人格女性艺术家的一种独特之处。她一直探索她所喜爱的各种家庭题材，充分发展了她这种清新淳朴的画风。成为当时印象派运动中一位重要而独具一格的女性艺术家。　

1891年，四十七岁的Mary Cassatt首次举办了她的个人展，为法国艺术业界所推崇。不过此时她并不受美国的重视，直到1904年芝加哥美术协会邀请她为年度展览主宾时，她才回到了美国。十年之后，费城美术学院为她颁奖，才逐渐被世人所知，晚年她移居于法国南部的格拉赛。1926年Mary Cassatt去世，直到1947年美国才举办了Mary Cassatt回顾大展，在她离世的二十年后，她才被祖国追认为是一位伟大的女性艺术家。

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