Arts and Performance

Mary Cassatt: Painting The Modern Woman

PLAY

Part of the highly successful Exhibition on Screen franchise!


Discover the life and career of Mary Cassatt, the often-overlooked Impressionist who transformed the way women appeared in art.

Mary Cassatt made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, curious and engaging, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.

Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces us to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted.

“Fascinating and moving” – The Guardian

She printed, sketched, and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet she never married or had children 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.

“A luminous, fascinating look at the life and times of… Mary Cassatt” – Sydney Arts Guide

The world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars help tell this riveting tale of great social and cultural change; a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.

Screeners

Programme Details

DURATION
1 x 90' / 1 x 60'
ORIGINAL BROADCASTER
Sky Arts
OTHER BROADCASTERS
Theatrical Release
AVAILABLE IN
HD
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE
English