Susan Comforting the Baby-Trigger Your Fellings

The painting Susan Comforting the Baby was one of the very popular and typical paintings for Mary Cassatt's style. The work was painted on canvas using oil in 1881, and its size is 65.09 cm (25.63 in.) x 101.28 cm (39.88 in.)
It caught my eyes because it triggered my emotions so much. It reminded me of my little sister. Mary Cassatt successfully chose the material to awake the moment at which the baby just stopped crying after Susan had comforted her. The picture brought the very pleasant and peaceful instant whenever I stayed beside my sister to mind. You may also experience that feeling when you see the picture in person. She brought her brush back and forth in different ways. Even she did not depict exactly every detail of the moment, the way she chose what was to draw and what was not to focus too much on awakes human feelings. For example, in the photo that I shot with zooming in to focus on the baby's eyes, you can see she did not draw complete eyes. The artist simply applied brushstrokes to create the soul in the baby's eyes. I love the baby's eyes than any other details because of those plain eyes. Mary Cassatt also corporated cold and warm colors effectively in order to describe that very composed moment. Moreover, she used linear perspective to create three dimensions affect for the picture. Looking at the windows and the wall with flowers, audience can guess where is the vanishing point.

The title of the work tells exactly what is it for. The picture simply describes the pleasure of the every day life. By doing some research, I realize that almost all of Mary Cassatt's works are representational. She chose her own family members as her subject matter. Her topics were women and children, and she achieved her greatest success in the depiction of maternity. Mary was one of the only three women and the only one American woman chose Impressionism as their paiting style. That may have been the reason why she chose women and children as her models. She chose to depict the beauty of life, and her works help to confirm the women's ability to enjoy and reproduce the beauty of the every day scences through her sensitive eyes.