Mary Cassatt Disappoints Her Rich Dad ep 32 w/ Zack Hammond.

Mary Cassatt, babies, breastfeeding, Paris, Pennsylvania, rich people, and a group of comedians trying to figure out what the hell is happening in these paintings.

This week on We Like Art, Tommy Mavra and Manny dive into the life and artwork of Mary Cassatt — the American-born artist who spent much of her career in France and became known for her paintings of women, mothers, and children.

With comedian Zack Hammond joining the show, we talk about Cassatt's childhood, her family, growing up in Pennsylvania, becoming an artist in a time when that wasn't exactly encouraged for women, and her decision to leave America and move to Paris.

We talk about Cassatt's struggles as an artist, her time in Paris, the difficulty of selling her work in America, the Great Chicago Fire and the paintings she lost, wealthy families and the expectations placed on women, and the challenges women faced trying to build careers in the art world.

This is Mary Cassatt explained the We Like Art way — part art history, part comedy podcast, and part three people staring at famous paintings while confidently getting things wrong.

If you like Mary Cassatt, Impressionism, art history, famous paintings, women's art history, American artists, French art, 19th-century art, museums, comedy podcasts, stand-up comedy, or watching comedians try to understand famous artwork, you're in the right place.

This is We Like Art — the comedy podcast about art history where we look at famous artists and artworks, ask the tough questions, make terrible guesses, and occasionally learn something.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 — Mary Cassatt: Like a Cassette Tape

1:34 — Welcome to We Like Art

2:31 — We need help understanding Mary Cassatt

2:46 — Meet comedian Zack Hammond

3:50 — Getting to know the guest

5:00 — Why are we talking about Mary Cassatt?

7:00 — Who was Mary Cassatt?

10:00 — Mary Cassatt and Pennsylvania

13:00 — Growing up and becoming an artist

16:00 — Women trying to become artists in the 1800s

20:00 — Cassatt leaves America for Paris

24:00 — Mary Cassatt in Paris

28:00 — Cassatt's artistic career

32:00 — Let's look at the paintings

34:20 — Mothers, babies and breastfeeding

35:00 — Why is this baby so damn big?

36:00 — Mary Cassatt's paintings of women and children

38:00 — What are we actually looking at?

40:00 — Cassatt's family didn't exactly support her career

41:18 — Cassatt's move to Paris

42:00 — Trying to sell her paintings in America

42:36 — The Great Chicago Fire

43:05 — Cassatt gets a commission and travels to Italy

45:00 — Another Mary Cassatt painting

46:00 — We attempt to identify the artwork

47:25 — Is this David again?

50:00 — More Mary Cassatt and art history

52:00 — Women, motherhood and domestic life

55:00 — Looking closer at Cassatt's artwork

58:00 — The weirdest art history discussion yet

1:00:00 — More questionable interpretations

1:02:00 — Back to Mary Cassatt

1:04:00 — Cassatt, family and expectations

1:06:00 — Why did Mary Cassatt paint women and children?

1:08:00 — Our extremely questionable Mary Cassatt analysis

1:10:00 — Final thoughts on Mary Cassatt

1:12:00 — Like, subscribe and support We Like Art

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