Slow Art Sunday - Cassatt

With the season of spring breaks underway, Slow Art Saturday would like to offer a tiny hiatus from your regular hustle and bustle with “Children Playing on the Beach”.  Slow looking can give you a few peaceful moments even if you don’t head to a warm sea for spring break.  These two little cherubs playing blissfully in the sand certainly takes down my heartrate. 

American born Mary Cassatt painted this lovely setting in 1884. Well known for her tender scenes with mothers and children, some have suggested that this painting may have been a tribute to Cassatt’s sister Lydia who died two years prior.   

Most of Mary’s adult life was spent in France, first to study and then staying on to make art as she became friends with many of the French Impressionists.  Her family later joined her living  together in Paris.

So, even if this masterpiece is only the size of your cellphone screen, let it take you away to a warm shore for a little R & R.  (by the way, the numerous blues in this painting are my favourite!!)

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