John Singer Sargent: Watercolors
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0878467912 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 252 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A must-have for students of Sargent S. Benedict This book on Sargent Watercolors is wonderful. Lots of nicely reproduced images that fill the page. The paintings are grouped by subject: Venice, Bedouins, gardens, mountains, quarries, etc. It has some photos of Sargent at work, and photos of his models. Even better: the book includes many close-ups of the paintings, so you can see how he painted them. You can see how Sargent layered the paint, how he used a wax resist, or wet-in-wet. There's even a chapter, called . Sargent's Fantastic Watercolors Kenneth Hughes This is the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum from April to July 2013, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from October 2013 to January 2014, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston from March to May 2014. Both exhibition and catalogue are collaborative efforts of the Boston and Brooklyn museums and are curated and edited by Erica Hirschler and Teresa Carbone, their most senior curators of American art. Perhaps the most surprising thing ab. H. Blissberg said The Place to Start for Sargent Lovers. Not surprisingly, a very smart, detailed tribute to Sargent, full of history, insight, and including a granular analysis of his tools and techniques.
The contents of the first, in 1909, were purchased in their entirety by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In watercolor, his vision became more personal and his works more interconnected, as he considered the way one image--often of a friend or favorite place--enhanced another. Enhanced by biographical and technical essays, and lavishly illustrated with 175 color reproductions, this publication introduces readers to the full sweep of Sargent’s accomplishments in this medium, in works that delight the eye as well as challenge our understanding of this prodigiously gifted artist.The international art star of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris and worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Sargent held only two major watercolor exhibitions in the United States during his lifetime. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. The paintings exhibited in the other, in 1912, were scooped up by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. John Singer Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. His dynamic and boldly conceived watercolors, created during travels to Tuscan gardens, Alpine retreats, Venetian canals and Bedouin encampments, record unusual motifs that caught his incisive eye
. Richard Ormond is an independent art historian
Experimenting with unusual compositions and new techniques, he reinvented himself aesthetically far from stagnating Sargent was innovating in his watercolors. (Judith Dobrzynski The New York Times)