John Singer Sargent, Watercolors bathed in Light
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- čas přidán 28. 12. 2023
- John Sargent is one of those figures in art history that was and is recognized as a premier talent. Perhaps the greatest portrait artist of all time, he was humble and modest with others, somewhat aloof but intensely interesting. He spoke several languages and played the piano like a champ, William Merritt Chase could testify to his brilliance in that area. But his talent was far-reaching, he was a prolific watercolorist as was his mother. This presentation shares insights into his watercolor technique and its relation to Oils.
I love it that you said: "We have a new era, one that longs once again to see real talent at work." YES, we do!!
no we don't. you're just ignorant. real talent just works industry jobs now.
@@Camoedine Hmm, a person who calls people they don't know 'ignorant,' who claims to know, not just what real talent is, but where everyone with real talent works. Real talent isn't going to give people with very little perceptiveness their time, methinks.
That was great. Thanks!
In school, Sargent was often used as an example to achieve especially in life drawing. Something I'm still working on after 50 plus years.
My husband is a Sargent and I’m so proud to be his wife. I have several pieces in my home I love them. Of course not originals but they are still beautiful.
I never tire of looking at Sargent's work. And listening to dialog regarding how wonderful his work is. It was quite different when I was studying painting in the 1980's. I loved him then too, but he was dismissed as a portraitist, realist and unimportant. I was too shy to argue and satisfied myself by seeing his works in museums and in large volumes at the library. Thank you for this content. It affirms my belief that he is a great artist.
You were right, Sargent was highly respected in his day..He was compared to Van Dyck.
I just saw his exhibition at the Tate last week showing some of the gowns he used. They were unimpressive but Sargent's rendering showed them as magnificent. I also saw several portraits which I had never seen. One, the Duchess of Portland was shown on a lone wall as you entered the room. Breath taking. Thanks for this video. I was disappointed that none of his watercolors were shown, but it was a privilege to see this exhibit.
The goat, truely he saw the world like anyone else
Perfect Thank you. He is my Favorite American Artist 💯🇺🇸❤️
Again, thankyou for this excellent commentary and a way we all can look into the mind of J.S.S!
Inspiring, challenging and overwhelming….
Excellent. Didn’t know how much Sargent worked at those “effortless” society portraits.
Sargent s color applying into any painting is so genius. Hat's off.
This was truly a wonderful video. He is one of the most gifted artist of our time❤️
As a mediocre artist myself I was so impressed. I love John Pike but I have to say John Singer was even more incredible an that is such a high bar considering two of the best watercolor artists I ever viewed.
Great presentation! Thank you!
WONDERFUL!!!!!!
Excellent video! Two thumbs way up!!
There was a wonderful painting of his in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. A huge canvas of a woman in light and dark. I would love to see it once more! It truly haunted me.
Thanks for this
Thank you! Wonderful presentation.
While in art school, I couldn't afford to see the John Singer Sargent show that ran at the Met, at the time. Thank you for this video, and good luck with your channel.
If you have a New York or New Jersey address, the Met has always let you pay whatever you want.
Davvero un grandissimo artista.
Superb!
Thank you. Brilliant artist.
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Another informative video on a great artist - and so well presented 👍👍👍
Now that Artificial "Intelligence" is going to endanger every form of visual art/design and will corrupt and cheapen it on an unthinkable scale without asking, under the guise of so-called 'progress' and 'new art paths', we will need these types of channels like Gammell even more. Channels that continue to draw attention to real art. I am a draftsman myself who needs the internet for exposure and is therefore confronted with the fait accompli regarding the theft of images or renewed iconoclasm caused by corporate forces that are now going all out for AI and wipe their asses concerning the copyrights of all the art available on the internet. Those who have invested the most in AI are now also co-writing bills, together with the so-called governments / media approved by them, so what can we as artists still do?
My art teacher in college let me use his work as to copy one time. He said it was a good way to learn.
Excellent video ‼️
Great video!
Enjoying all the vids
Amazing! Thank you!
Thank you very much for the lovely enjoyable video!! However, one thing is troubling me - at 4:05 the two portrait drawings are very obviously not by Sargent. They don't have Sargent's expertise & are instead artist copies done in 2014 & 2016. Otherwise, it's a very beautiful video!
Yes, you are right! Thank you for that.
Some artists such as Sargent had such super drawing/painting skills from life or on location. People nowadays copy photos left and right. They even wonder if artists like Sargent copied photos. If I were Sargent, I would refuse to use any photos. I wouldn't want to ruin my reputation while having such supreme talents/skills.
Well done. Thank you.
My art teacher gave me grief by initially laying down pure white (highlights, white cloth and clouds, etc.)
WTH? How come watercolorists *and draughtmen can do it (‘leaving blank paper for white) but not oil painters?
beautiful work
Thanks
Drawing is the basis. Painting is drawing with the brush.
Can You Go more into this Rotation Method you claimed he used?
draftsmen, best men
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Hey, if you are going to do a presentation on JSS's Watercolors, you should only being showing water colors of his than. C,L,L,R is an Oil? For somebody that doesn't know that- it would be confusing, no?.
Point well taken, but we were also interested in his combined efforts for light overall, Thanks for your comment.
I agree. Just show the watercolors or make sure what is oil is noted so we see the difference
Intuitive stress on the value contrast between the hats and faces of the picture of Paul Helleu and his wife. It looks like his wife was eager to go but couldn’t find an appropriate place while Paul was busy himself painting, ignoring her urgent needs. 😂
I know that he worked from fotos..... Were most these watercolors from fotos ..??? Do You know ???....... just my opinion 😊
Where did you find out that he worked from photos?
Wasn't he talented. And like you say, rich, well connected and all that talented. Some people...
I don’t think he took watercolours all that seriously, as the lack of detail portrayed in most of them give an appearance of laziness on his part.
Why call it lazy? He's sketching a fleeting moment, I don't think he had the time or any interest in 'detail'.
On the contrary, I think his watercolors focused on the essence of light and the overall feeling. Dreamlike, I find those absolutely captivating
Yes indeed, 'lazy', I believe that's most definitely the verb that most accurately characterises JSS's watercolours and is the first thing that springs to mind when we think of his plein air paintings.
We can imagine him there, can't we, in a quarry, perhaps venice, with half closed eyes and half a mind on lunch or dinner randomly waving his brush around with whatever pigment he'd blindly picked being lackadaisically slapped on to the paper.
It's such a feature of his poor approach that nearly everyone, you and me included, could no doubt easily produce work of a much higher standard for we are not feckless, not like that John Singer Sargent the well known lazy bastard.
@@yancowles
“Lazy” is an adjective, not a verb.
@@grahamgillard3722 It is both but I guess you were too lazy to look it up.
From the OED...
The earliest known use of the verb lazy is in the early 1600s.
OED's earliest evidence for lazy is from 1612, in the writing of Joshua Sylvester, poet and translator.
It is also recorded as an adjective from the mid 1500s.