Mary Cassatt was an american painter. She was porn in Pennsylvania but lived much of her adult life in France. She grew up in an environment that viewed travel as integral to education. While abroad she learned German and French and had her first lessons in drawing and music. In 1877, both her entries were rejected, and for the first time in seven years she had no work, at this low point in her career she was invited by Edgar Degas to show her works with the impressionists. The 1890s were Cassatt's busiest and most creative time. She had matured considerably and became more diplomatic and less blunt in her opinions. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. In her interpretation, she used primarily light, delicate pastel colors and avoided black. A trip to Egypt in 1910 impressed Cassatt with the beauty of its ancient art, but was followed by a crisis of creativity; not only had the trip exhausted her, but she declared herself "crushed by the strength of this Art”.  

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