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    Exhibition on Screen ‘Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman’ March 14

    Sedona Film Festival hosts big-screen presentation of art series at Mary D. Fisher theatre
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    “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” follows the progression of Cassatt’s work, her meticulous study of the Old Masters and traditional techniques while also exposing her frustration at not finding a style that truly expressed her desire to be modern until she discovered the Impressionists.
    “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” follows the progression of Cassatt’s work, her meticulous study of the Old Masters and traditional techniques while also exposing her frustration at not finding a style that truly expressed her desire to be modern until she discovered the Impressionists.
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    Sedona News – Sedona International Film Festival presents the Exhibition on Screen series with “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman”. The event will show in Sedona on Tuesday, March 14 at 4 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre.

    “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” follows the progression of Cassatt’s work, her meticulous study of the Old Masters and traditional techniques while also exposing her frustration at not finding a style that truly expressed her desire to be modern until she discovered the Impressionists.
    “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” follows the progression of Cassatt’s work, her meticulous study of the Old Masters and traditional techniques while also exposing her frustration at not finding a style that truly expressed her desire to be modern until she discovered the Impressionists.

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

    Directed by Ali Ray (Frida Kahlo) and featuring the world’s most eminent Cassatt curators and scholars (all women), this new feature film “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” reveals how this classically trained American artist came to join a group of Parisian radicals — the Impressionists — a movement that transformed the history of art.

    Mary Cassatt, born in Pennsylvania in 1844, lived much of her adult life in France, to the extent that she became not an American artist but a French artist.  In 1868, her painting A Mandolin Player became her first work to be accepted by the Paris Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.  Edgar Degas saw Cassatt’s work at the Salon and, in 1877, he asked her to exhibit with a new group called the Impressionists.

    Cassatt’s connection to the Impressionists, however, is only a tiny part of her story. Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels, and paintings, the film introduces us to this surprising, compelling, yet often-overlooked artist, whose own career was as full of contradictions as the women she painted.   

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    “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” follows the progression of Cassatt’s work, her meticulous study of the Old Masters and traditional techniques while also exposing her frustration at not finding a style that truly expressed her desire to be modern until she discovered the Impressionists.  

    This film tells a riveting tale of great social and cultural change at a time when women were fighting for their rights and the language of art was being completely re-written. Mary Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.

    The Exhibition on Screen Series is generously sponsored by Goldenstein Gallery.

    “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Tuesday, March 14 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $15, or $13 for Film Festival members. Tickets are available in advance at the Sedona International Film Festival office or by calling 928-282-1177 or online at www.SedonaFilmFestival.org. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona.

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