Artist of the time, like Mary Cassatt, were hindered. This impressionist could work alongside Edgar Degas, possibly to an advantage to her work, looking to one another for inspiration. The life of artwork by choice was a characteristic that gave Cassatt an option to paint more controversially, as well as being backed by a well-known impressionist of the time, allowing works such as Modern Woman to be created in spirit of herself (Sharp, Kevin, Clarke, 1998) One of Cassatt’s most controversial pieces, Modern Woman, displays the continuous kind of criticism women of the art world receive, or remains prevalent in the oppression or ignorance of such artists. The criticism received focused on not only one aspect of the piece, but most everything
