John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Belle Époque and Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Capri, Spain, the Middle East
"The habit of breaking up ones colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism—Couture advocates it in a little book called Causeries dAtelier written about 1860—it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason."
John Singer Sargent"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
John Singer Sargent"Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision)."
John Singer Sargent
