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"was a unusual piece of her artistic style because of its coloring, complex composition, and subject matter. Cassatt usually just painted women and children, and so adding a man to that mix was an attempt at new compositional effects (Emily Brady) ."
Since it is one of Mary Cassatt's more controversial pieces, is there another meaning to why the man is one of the darker figures, besides completing the painting. Blue is used the most in the piece.
That's a very good question Caiming. Now that I think about it, the man being in the dark could be a signal that the artist doesn't like men very much, or that she doesn't undertand them. They are shrouded in darkness and mystery in her mind. The fact that you don't see the man's face could also be portraying this. He is mysterious, his identity unknown.
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