ROCKLAND — The Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., screens “Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” as a high-definition “Exhibition On Screen” presentation Thursday, March 16, at 2 and 7 p.m. Working with top international museums and galleries, “Exhibition On Screen” create films that offer a cinematic immersion into the world’s best loved art, accompanied by insights from leading historians and arts critics.
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) made a career painting the lives of the women around her. Her radical images showed them as intellectual, feminine and real, which was a major shift in the way women appeared in art.
Presenting her astonishing prints, pastels and paintings, this film introduces viewers to the often-overlooked Impressionist whose own career was as full of contradiction as the women she painted. She printed, sketched and painted dozens of images of mothers and children yet 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.
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. Cassatt and her modern women were at the heart of it all.
“Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman” was released to coincide with International Women’s Day.
Running time is 1 hour, 33 minutes. Tickets are $15/general admission, $12/Strand members. To buy tickets, or for more information, visit rocklandstrand.com or call (207) 594-0070, ext. 3.
“Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge” (1879) by Mary Cassatt.
