The recent exhibition of Sargent’s informal portraits raises questions not so much about his work, but more about his critics.
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After japonisme, it was appropriate that Japanese painters should be trained in Paris and take the latest avant garde European styles and techniques back.
Whether Sargent was ever a true Impressionist will remain a matter of debate, but his uncommissioned work was loose, full of light and colour.
Three more wonderful American Impressionists, although the lives of two were tragically cut short when they died suddenly.
He became an unabashed Impressionist during his long training in Europe, and was a great painter by any standards.
Compared with most other European countries, Impressionism largely passed British painters by.
Anders Zorn earned a high reputation during his glittering career; although today he is perhaps more widely known for his buxom country-girl nudes, he is a painter’s painter.
Several Finnish painters assumed impressionist style, although in the case of Gallen-Kallela it was a step on his road to Expressionism.
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