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Why Sargent Painted Outside The Lines
Why Sargent Painted Outside The Lines
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what
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we
looking
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here
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it's
paint
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streaks
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foreign what are we looking at here clearly it's paint thick streaks of paint
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Loosely applied at various angles unblended you can almost see the paintbrush making The
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Strokes across the canvas nothing recognizable seems to be depicted here at this distance
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the image looks messy
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and Abstract but let's back up at this distance those loose brush Strokes perfectly
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resolve into a yellow shawl wrapped around a young woman in a billowy mint
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green dress who's laying back on a couch in an elegant room an image
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of sweet afternoon Repose
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which is the name of this canvas from my favorite painter John Singer Sergeant
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this difference between the close-up
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and the view of the whole canvas is the key to understanding Sergeant's genius
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everywhere you look in this painting you see his supremely confident looseness a kind
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of painting you maybe wouldn't think to associate with a realistic representation of the
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world and yet that's exactly the final effect a realism
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that is somehow more true than finally Detail Painting where did Sergeant's confidence in
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this technique come from well to understand
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that you have to understand Sergeant's teacher carolus Duran a 19th century French painter
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who bucked the academic emphasis on outline drawing in
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which she would essentially paint inside the lines building up
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and detailing your canvas section by section until the whole thing came together Duran
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taught his students to abandon outlines
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and focus on capturing the colors
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and tonal values of what they saw in painting tonal value refers to how
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light or dark something is with black being the darkest
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and white the lightest everything you see exists along
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that spectrum and Duran believed
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that if you captured all the tonal relationships in your canvas accurately
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if you got the ratios right you'd present the reality we see more honestly
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in essence his students had to learn to look at the world differently flattening
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their site to let objects melt into their values
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and colors and the two-dimensional shapes they make
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then they had to get these shapes onto the canvas in paint never working
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on one section for too long
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so as not to throw those value ratios off
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because the painting is always a Unity a delicate series of relationships Duran students
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learn to see beyond objects to the light
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and color effects that describe them
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and what they discovered is
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that this two-dimensional way of seeing produce paintings
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that were more three-dimensional in effect than anything
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that began with an outline it's a method Duran learned in part from Diego
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Velasquez a Spanish painter who lived 200 years prior
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and was in many ways 200 years ahead of his time
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if you look at Velasquez's career you see him transition from the decorative conventions
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of his time to an Earnest revolutionary attempt to capture his impression of reality
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impression is of course the key word Sergeant came of age
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as the impressionist movement led by Claude Monet flowered he was friends with Monet
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staying with learning from
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and even painting him on occasion
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but Sergeant was not usually counted among Impressionists with a capital I he was
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part of a broader group impressionist with a lowercase i
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and the way Velazquez was in the way Duran was in the sense
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that the impressions of light
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and color were his subjects Sergeant rapidly absorbed Duran's teaching
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and then exceeded him a moment symbolized in his extraordinary portrait of Duran
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which was honored by the Paris Salon of 1879
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when Sergeant was just 23.
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I mean look at this face the highlights on the forehead nose
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and lips the upturned mustache
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and the hair fully realized without a touch of fine detail look at how
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he conjures a ring with a drop of yellow paint
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as the novelist Henry James wrote The Young Sergeant presents The Uncanny spectacle of
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a talent which on the very threshold of its career has nothing more to
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learn this wasn't true of course
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but it spoke to Sergeant's exceptional gifts the Duran painting was a calling card
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for Sergeant's portrait business
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and high society came knocking on mass given how many he did Sergeant is
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known chiefly as a Portrait Painter
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and he is simply put the greatest portraitist who ever lived capturing all the
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glamor of the late Victorian
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and Edwardian ages but a portraitist is not all he was after this stunning
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painting of a wealthy social light caused a scandal in Paris for being too
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racy Sergeant moved to England
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and soon embarked on what I think is his greatest work Carnation Lily Lily
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Rose sailing along the Thames one summer evening he saw Chinese lanterns hanging amid
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the foliage and was instantly moved to capture
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that interplay of light the only problem is
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that this magical light
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as we all know only emerges for a few fleeting minutes every evening
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and only in the Summers Sergeant worked for two years on the painting patiently
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waiting each day for the special moment to arrive at
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which point he would have his friend's daughter's pose in white dresses
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and work feverishly while the light lasted after painting
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and repainting again and again he finally captured it
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and here you can see the real Merit of dialing in those values
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and colors because what sergeant here by the accumulation of little effects is an
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atmosphere a movish coloring
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that seems like it's in the air itself
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which is what it really feels like to be outside on a summer evening
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Sergeant fused the lessons of Duran Velasquez the Impressionists the realists with his own
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singular talent to forge a style in
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which mere suggestions laid down with a practiced looseness resolve at the right distance
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