{"id":612984,"date":"2026-04-17T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:27:07","slug":"the-feminist-symbolism-behind-mary-cassatts-woman-with-a-sunflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612984\/","title":{"rendered":"The feminist symbolism behind Mary Cassatt\u2019s \u2018Woman With a Sunflower\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RWGILUDF45AIFMLQA6F5ICBKVE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">This is the year of Mary Cassatt.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Z456SMUSKZBURB2LGAGS7F2W3E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The beloved painter of mothers and children \u2014 the only American, and one of just a handful of women, to have been welcomed into the French impressionist boys\u2019 club \u2014 did have a moment in the sun two years ago. The Philadelphia Museum of Art\u2019s 2024 exhibition \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/art\/2024\/07\/25\/marie-cassatt-work-philadelphia-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mary Cassatt at Work,<\/a>\u201d coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, exploded the notion of Cassatt as little more than a painter of sentimental \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/article\/2024\/jun\/12\/mary-cassatt-at-work-review-philadelphia-museum-of-art__;!!M9LbjjnYNg9jBDflsQ!AIFCGIGsIU3wc2A25CY-6P2LZ4Hv39iqfA-ovsGOoKKKOnpqSS-QWftcwLiqLe-QaiiKNNYbESpMZTk$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mother\u2019s Day card clich\u00e9s<\/a>,\u201d in the words of one critic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the year of Mary Cassatt. The beloved painter of mothers and children \u2014 the only American,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-612984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}