Cassatt, In the Loge발음듣기
Cassatt, In the Loge
(piano music) Voiceover: Paris in the second half of the 19th century had become a modern city.발음듣기
It was place where the newly wealthy would show themselves off and would also be interested in seeing what other people were wearing.발음듣기
Voiceover: And the opera house was really the center piece of this new modern Paris that was begun during the Second Empire in the 1850's and 60's.발음듣기
It's got gold and mosaics and paintings and mirrors and broad, beautiful staircases and balconies. It's a fabulous space.발음듣기
Of course there was the stage, but so much of that building was given over to the public display of the audience before the performance, after the performance, and during the intermission.발음듣기
Voiceover: So the social spaces where people could see and be seen were a critical part of the opera house.발음듣기
Voiceover: And that's the subject of an important painting by Mary Cassatt called, "In the Loge."발음듣기
Voiceover: And although there are several paintings by Mary Cassatt of this subject and paintings by other artists like Renoir of figures in the Loge in the boxes in the opera house, none of those paintings reveal a subject so engaged in looking.발음듣기
The great chandelier has come down from the ceiling and has illuminated the audience and now she is taking the opportunity, not to look at the stage, but to look across at somebody else.발음듣기
Voiceover: Well that's so interesting because the male figure who's got his own opera glasses and is peering at her reminds us that we are just as much a voyeur looking at her as he is.발음듣기
but she's found here, in the opera, one of the few places where she can really partake as a woman in the activity of looking and being seen, which was so central to the work of the impressionists.발음듣기
When we think about the advanced painting of this moment, of Monet and Manet and Degas and Renoir, 발음듣기
we know that they're painting dance halls and cafes and bars and the social spaces of the city and the streets of the city.발음듣기
The grand boulevards of the new Paris because a woman, Mary Cassatt, couldn't be free in those spaces in the same way as her male colleagues.발음듣기
And it made sense, as a woman artist wanting to paint the modern world, for her to paint the space that was really socially accessible to her.발음듣기
This woman is in the process of looking as the male gazer is, as well, and there's this reveling between the male gaze and the female gaze.발음듣기
Voiceover: And she leans her elbow on the edge of the box just the like male figure does behind her, who's looking at her.발음듣기
Voiceover: It reminds me of some of the drawings and paintings that Degas did of opera glasses.발음듣기
Voiceover: And also a sort of a aspect of technology here in the way that visual technology was enhancing the world that we could see and ways that we could see it.발음듣기
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