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John Singer Sargent Interior of Santa Sophia, Constantinople 1891 Oil on canvas 32 × 24 5/8 in. (81.3 × 62.5 cm.) Speed Art Museum Louisville, Kentucky
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Art of the Day I Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis ,1898. John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)oil on canvas, Framed - h:249.00 w:134.00 d:9.50 cm (h:98 w:52 ¾ d:3 11/16 inches) Unframed - h:219.30 w:104.80 cm (h:86 5/16 w:41 ¼ inches). Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1998.168
Sargent was a highly popular portrait painter of his time, painting all of American and European society’s most glamorous and wealthy. The portrait above shows the heiress to the Colt firearms company, dressed to receive guests in an elegant and shimmering gown. Sargent gave the portrait as a wedding gift to her and her husband, who was his cousin, upon their nuptials.
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#MetSargent: An Exhibit You Really Do Have To See
The amazing thing – or one amazing thing, for there are several – about the show now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York was how close it let you get to some of *the* masterpieces of Sargent’s career. Portraits from the Orsay, the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery (who were the primary curators of the exhibition), the Fogg, some random museums in Arkansas and the Midwest, the MFA Boston, even private collections: these are big, glorious, impressive paintings you usually have to commute to see. And here they were, together.
The pacing and hanging were excellent; the wall colors were perfectly chosen to set off the moments and individual works at their best; even the wall texts were right.
And, once you’re in the Met, it’s an open exhibit: no extra fee, no waiting in line – just get back to the American wing and BEHOLD his skill, his influence and technique, his humor and attitude, and his subjects. Fantastic.
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Ena and Betty Wertheimer
1901
Tate Gallery, London
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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant (1899), oil on canvas, 213.7 x 292.1 cm. Via nevsepic.com.ua.
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Moustache Monday + John Singer Sargent’s birthday means we had to post at least one picture of the man himself…
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Happy birthday John Singer Sargent!
January 12th, 1856
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Happy birthday to John Singer Sargent, one of the preeminent painters of the Edwardian era. This work exemplifies his move from urban imagery to colorful landscapes—considered the beginning of his Impressionist phase—during a stay in Nice, France. “Landscape with Women in Foreground,” c. 1883, by John Singer Sargent
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After missing all the celebrity birthdays last week, at least we remembered John Singer Sargent - born January 12, 1856 in Florence, Italy.
GIF of “Carnation Lily, Lily, Rose” from Sargent by T. Martin Wood (1909)
"Carnation Lily, Lily Rose" was painted in a garden by the Thames. Two children are lighting up the Chinese lanterns, and in their light and with flowers surrounding, Sargent sees for a moment life itself by accident made idyllic."
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On The Customs of the Country, And How Edith Wharton Foretold Kim Kardashian and the Real Housewives
(All of the images in this post are paintings by John Singer Sargent, who apparently makes an appearance in “The Custom of the Country” in the character Popple, an artist who was a virtuoso at capturing dress, and left faces vague likenesses.)
I’m trying to think of an intelligent way to begin this post, but really all I can think of saying is that I read Edith Wharton’s “Custom of the Country” in four days, which I think says a lot about the novel. And what that says is that I fucking LOVED IT. I could not put it down. In fact, yesterday, during the snow storm, I walked back from the subway reading the final ten pages because I couldn’t wait to get home to see what happened to Undine Spragg, the society girl social climber who is the main protagonist of the story.
I think most creative people think a lot about what grants a work of art longevity. No one who’s really serious about their craft is like, “I want to write a book that sells well for a year, and then everyone throws in the garbage.” In order to do so, it’s a common misconception that you have to write about some obscure but intellectually challenging topic. The story has to be difficult enough that it can’t be too easy to read by a large segment of the population — if it’s not, then it’s “middle” or “low” brow, and thus disposable.
The good news is that if Edith Wharton is any indication, the subject matter doesn’t have to be heady at all. In my opinion, the Custom of the Country is basically the story of Kim Kardashian imagined by an intelligent woman with an extraordinary writing talent. Undine Spragg is a beautiful girl from a small city in America with no discernible talent besides social climbing. She doesn’t want anything except to wear beautiful clothing and have more money than anyone else. It takes her until the end of the book to get exactly what she wants, and even though she’s a completely despicable, selfish person, you root for her the entire way up. Which is also how I would describe my feelings toward the union between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (colloquially described as Kimye).
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Portrait of Édouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron by John Singer Sargent.
Source: Wikipedia
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Spanish Dancer (1879-82). John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925). Oil on canvas. A preparatory study for the main figure in El Jaleo.
Sargent dramatized the contrast between rich blacks and the shining white skirt of the dancer, caught in the strong footlights and painted briskly so as to suggest movement. The dancer, leaning asymmetrically, is placed to imply forward motion, from left to right across the canvas.
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“Mrs. Carl Meyer, later Lady Meyer, and her Two Children ” (1896) by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).
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John Singer Sargent, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1892), oil on canvas, 101 x 127 cm
(via LATER 19th CENTURY REALISM )
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J o h n S i n g e r S a r g e n t *
Mrs. Henry White
Gemälde von John Singer Sargent (* 12. Januar 1856 in Florenz - 1915 )
Boston public library. mural in background by John Singer Sargent. 1895.
Source: hadrian6
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Lady Speyer (Leonora von Stosch), 1907. John Singer Sargent (American, Realism, 1856-1925). Oil on canvas.
Lady Leonora Speyer (née von Stosch) (1872–1956) was an American poet and violinist.
Sir Edgar Speyer had German ancestry and following anti-German attacks on him, they moved to the United States and took up residence in New York, where Speyer began writing poetry. She won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book of poetry “Fiddler’s Farewell.”