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Mary Cassat art work inspires Google

by Amy Judd | May 22, 2009 at 08:36 am

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Google celebrates the birthday of American Impressionist painter Mary Cassat today, with a Google Doodle logo on their homepage.

Mary Cassat was born May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and died June 14 1926 near Paris at the age of 82.

She is best known for her paintings of women and children, that are tender but not overly sentimental. She was friends with Edgar Degas and she exhibited among the Impressionists in Paris beginning in 1877.

The Mary Cassatt painting in the Google logo is "The Child's Bath" from 1893. It is owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Paul Smith (not verified)

at 11:49 on May 22nd, 2009

I saw your post on Mary Cassatt too - she truly is one of the world's greatest impressionist artists. I wasn't happy with the google logo version though. The sentiment to recognize her is good but, google mucked up her style with cartoony brush strokes that leave people new to her genius the wrong "impression" :o) It's good that you included (unlike Google) some of her real work to view.
Anyway, I got all riled up and inspired simultaneously... My digg, "Google logo diminishes Mary Cassatt May 22, 2009" links to their version and one of my own: http://locketraunch.com/cassatt-google-logos.htm
If you have time, let me know what you think.