作者: 约翰·辛格·萨金特(John Singer Sargent,1856—1925),美国画家。生于意大利佛罗伦萨。1874年在卡罗律斯—迪朗的巴黎画室学画,受印象派影响。 1879年去西班牙研究委拉斯开兹的作品。1884年沙龙展览杰作《某夫人》引起流言,迁居伦敦。1876年到美国并加入美国籍。但长期逗留英、法、德、意等国,从事创作。多为上层人士作肖像画,其作品声誉渐高,有《石竹、百合、蔷薇》等。为西奥多·罗斯福、约翰·洛克菲勒画过像。1910年后热衷于水彩风景。1890~1910年为波士顿公共图书馆和波士顿美术馆作壁画。 商品描述: Editorial Reviews Review Experimenting with unusual compositions and new techniques, he reinvented himself aesthetically... far from stagnating Sargent was innovating in his watercolors. (Judith Dobrzynski The New York Times)
基本信息 Hardcover: 252页 出版社: MFA Publications/Brooklyn Museum; 1st (2013年4月30日) 语种: English ISBN-10: 0878467912 ISBN-13: 978-0878467914 John Singer Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer of an exhibition in London proclaimed him “an eagle in a dove-cote”; another called his work “swagger” watercolors. For Sargent, however, the watercolors were not so much about swagger as about a renewed and liberated approach to painting. In watercolor, his vision became more personal and his works more interconnected, as he considered the way one image--often of a friend or favorite place--enhanced another. Sargent held only two major watercolor exhibitions in the United States during his lifetime. The contents of the first, in 1909, were purchased in their entirety by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The paintings exhibited in the other, in 1912, were scooped up by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. John Singer Sargent Watercolors reunites nearly 100 works from these collections for the first time, arranging them by themes and subjects: sunlight on stone, figures reclining on grass, patterns of light and shadow. Enhanced by biographical and technical essays, and lavishly illustrated with 175 color reproductions, this publication introduces readers to the full sweep of Sargent’s accomplishments in this medium, in works that delight the eye as well as challenge our understanding of this prodigiously gifted artist.
The international art star of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris and worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Sargent is best known for his dramatic and stylish portraits, but he was equally active as a landscapist, muralist, and watercolor painter. His dynamic and boldly conceived watercolors, created during travels to Tuscan gardens, Alpine retreats, Venetian canals and Bedouin encampments, record unusual motifs that caught his incisive eye.
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