John Singer Sargent Landscapes - A collection of paintings 4K Ultra HD
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2018
- John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury.
In 1879, at the age of 23, Sargent painted a portrait of teacher Carolus-Duran; the virtuoso effort met with public approval, and announced the direction his mature work would take.
Its showing at the Paris Salon was both a tribute to his teacher and an advertisement for portrait commissions.
Of Sargent's early work, Henry James wrote that the artist offered "the slightly 'uncanny' spectacle of a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to learn."
After leaving Carolus-Duran's atelier, Sargent visited Spain. There he studied the paintings of Velázquez with a passion, absorbing the master's technique, and in his travels gathered ideas for future works. He was entranced with Spanish music and dance.
The trip also re-awakened his own talent for music (which was nearly equal to his artistic talent), and which found visual expression in his early masterpiece El Jaleo (1882).
Music would continue to play a major part in his social life as well, as he was a skillful accompanist of both amateur and professional musicians. Sargent became a strong advocate for modern composers, especially Gabriel Fauré.
Trips to Italy provided sketches and ideas for several Venetian street scenes genre paintings, which effectively captured gestures and postures he would find useful in later portraiture.
Upon his return to Paris, Sargent quickly received several portrait commissions. His career was launched.
He immediately demonstrated the concentration and stamina that enabled him to paint with workman-like steadiness for the next twenty-five years. He filled in the gaps between commissions with many non-commissioned portraits of friends and colleagues.
His fine manners, perfect French, and great skill made him a standout among the newer portraitists, and his fame quickly spread. He confidently set high prices and turned down unsatisfactory sitters.
He mentored his friend Emil Fuchs who was learning to paint portraits in oils.
During Sargent's long career, he painted more than 2,000 watercolors, roving from the English countryside to Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. Each destination offered pictorial stimulation and treasure.
Even at his leisure, in escaping the pressures of the portrait studio, he painted with restless intensity, often painting from morning until night.
His hundreds of watercolors of Venice are especially notable, many done from the perspective of a gondola. His colors were sometimes extremely vivid and as one reviewer noted, "Everything is given with the intensity of a dream."
In the Middle East and North Africa Sargent painted Bedouins, goatherds, and fisherman. In the last decade of his life, he produced many watercolors in Maine, Florida, and in the American West, of fauna, flora, and native peoples.
With his watercolors, Sargent was able to indulge his earliest artistic inclinations for nature, architecture, exotic peoples, and noble mountain landscapes.
It is in some of his late works where one senses Sargent painting most purely for himself. His watercolors were executed with a joyful fluidness. He also painted extensively family, friends, gardens, and fountains.
In watercolors, he playfully portrayed his friends and family dressed in Orientalist costume, relaxing in brightly lit landscapes that allowed for a more vivid palette and experimental handling than did his commissions (The Chess Game, 1906).
His first major solo exhibit of watercolor works was at the Carfax Gallery in London in 1905. In 1909, he exhibited eighty-six watercolors in New York City, eighty-three of which were bought by the Brooklyn Museum. Evan Charteris wrote in 1927:
To live with Sargent's watercolors is to live with sunshine captured and held, with the luster of a bright and legible world, 'the refluent shade' and 'the Ambient ardours of the noon.'
Although not generally accorded the critical respect given Winslow Homer, perhaps America's greatest watercolorist, scholarship has revealed that Sargent was fluent in the entire range of opaque and transparent watercolor technique, including the methods used by Homer.
Volume 1 - Overview - • John Singer Sargent Pa...
Volume 2 - Landscapes - • John Singer Sargent La...
Volume 3 - Female Portraits - • John Singer Sargent Fe...
Volume 4 - Male Portraits - • John Singer Sargent Ma...
Volume 5 - World War One - • John Singer Sargent Vo...
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Great great artist.
My great-great uncle - truly a master!
Really? How cool. A favourite of mine. I'd love to hear more about your family history. Very interesting. Lovely to hear from you and I hope we talk again soon.
beautiful paintings what talent! I am so grateful you took the time and energy to post this! I love it with no music ...just peace and quiet....it allows the viewer to concentrate on the works themselves!!
Thank you so much for this message. I wish you were able to see just how much of a lift it gives me to hear from people who are enjoying the videos. It's a lonely activity making them, and often finds me doubting my vision for them. I took a chance not adding background music. Alll the other videos of this type I have seen on RUclips all have music but I always found myself muting it so decided when first planning my channel to make videos of the type I would like to watch myself. Its always a risk doing something in a different way to what's established and I have always worried about it. So having you tell you that you like the silence and for the exact reason I intended is a relief and gives me confidence to continue. It's the same with how long I have each painting on screen before changing to the next one. Most other channels display each image for a few seconds, I leave mine for 20 seconds. This in some peoples eyes makes the video boring but I wanted enough time to engage with the painting before moving to the next. I expect I have lost a lot of viewers this way, and they move on before the end of the first picture. But I have to do what I feel is best, even at the cost of being the most popular I suppose. I tried making a video with images changing every few seconds but I felt it was disrespectful to the value of these amazing paintings but just rushing through them. I hope there are people like me who want to be able to look closer at each one, in fact I often watch my own videos played at slow speed for even more time. If I had my way I would have each picture on screen for minutes rather than seconds to allow the viewer to really appreciate them.
Thank you again for reaching out to me. There are lots of new videos coming soon and I hope you enjoy them.
Glenn.
What a genius! I could easily see standing in a gallery and studying each of these works, and maybe making sketches of them. There's SOO much here to learn.
At first I wondered why my sound wasn't working, and then discovered that there is no sound to this presentation. I like that. If I was in a gallery I'd like to be alone in silence so that I could study the work; the composition, the brush strokes, the choices of color, light and shade, what he left in and what he took out. Brilliant! Simply brilliant.
thank you for taking me along on this journey. Without your work I doubt I'd ever have the chance to see these.
Oh mate your message has made my day. That's the exact experience I was hoping to achieve. I have had some many inner doubts about the way I have put these videos together. Everyone else has music, but I wanted quiet to allow me to focus on the art. But should I do what others have, will people think I'm just being lazy having no audio. Am I staying too long on each image, every other video similar has images flying past 5 times quicker. I have been full of self doubts but just made it how I wanted watch. You have given me hope that it's OK to be different to the crowd and do things in the way that I would like. Thank you so much for reaching out to me. It's really made me happy
@@masterpainters1706 There is a great difference between "seeing more" and "Seeing more of what you see". Walking down the street and glancing at a window is certainly "seeing more", but of what? What has that effort contributed to a quality of life or an uplift of knowledge.
Staying longer ( In Silence! ) on each image allows a short study of what the artists was doing. ( I stopped the presentation so that I could study some of the brush work, and the choices in color.) Why does that water appear to move? How did Sargent move us to smell the flowers of a field, the rush of a stream, the brutal cold of a glacier covered mountain? These things take time to consider.
@@laurencelance586 me and you are of one mind I can see. I tried to make a video with each image on screen for the same amount of time as other channels but it felt disrespectful if that makes sense. When I watch the videos myself, which is the initial reason for this channel, I set playback to quarter speed and even then I end up pausing constantly. Same with the close up views. I love to get real close to the works, as much as I can with the resolution of the image I am able to find. Sometimes the abstract beauty of a brush stroke is a work of art by itself. I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and in exactly the way I hoped people would. 😊
Loved this one. What a man. This makes me want to learn more about him. Thank you.
There are 3 more videos of Sargent coming soon. The next in the series, volume 3, will be live sometime this week with the next 2 before the new year. One of my favourite artists. Also volume 1 of the Velazquez series will be live any day now. I think Sargents bravura brush work and painterly technique was inspired by Velazquez. Having said that though I think everyone loves Velazquez techniques, a real painters painter. I hope you enjoy.
I always felt like you could take any of his paintings, cut them up into 20 segments, and display those as abstract art pieces of their own. 😁
Fabulous collection of the master's work.
No AI can match singer's artwork