Did he just paint fashionable women in fashionable clothing, or was there more to this hugely successful artist?
Sargent
Rural naturalist, Impressionist, and Pre-Raphaelite styles in portraits, landscapes, genre, and religious paintings: that is versatility.
He painted with the Danish Impressionists at Skagen, in St Ives, and above all in Hungary – and has been all but forgotten now.
I thought that I knew what a narrative painting was, until I saw some examples. Are they?
They are to the study of art what a dictionary and grammar are to the study of a language, and a basic building block for our cultural heritage.
War Artists can work in any of the genres, but history painting is a natural choice. Here are some of the best from 1800 to 1945.
Marks made by the brush and knife serve different purposes from the late nineteenth century. They also beg some fascinating questions.
It was Clive Bell’s aesthetics which underpinned Roger Fry’s promotion of the Post-Impressionists. Here is what he wrote.
An exhibition in London in 1910 changed the course of history for Cézanne, and John Singer Sargent.
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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