John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargentwas an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, 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, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth12 January 1856
CountryUnited States of America
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.