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...In the late 19th century, artists such as Arnold Böcklin, John Singer Sargent and Isolde Kurz discovered it....
...Captured in the soft light of a north window, with hog-hair brushes and in the manner of John Singer Sargent, the life-sized portrait is at once theatrical and calm....
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...Hayes, 38, has been likened to a modern-day John Singer Sargent, and trained at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence. Hayes immediately wanted to paint her. “I’m obsessed with profile....
...The painting “Two Girls Fishing” by John Singer Sargent is a meditative image of the painter’s nieces on a family trip to the French Alps in 1912....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is John Singer Sargent – I’ve been a fan of his for most of my life....
...The dinners offer seasonal soul food, handmade gin that’ll knock your socks off and a view straight out of a John Singer Sargent painting – a reminder that this is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,...
...It has spawned doctrines such as Straight Edge (no alcohol, drugs or tobacco) and often prides itself on a sense of moral purity....
...While reading about the Sargents in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, I pictured Messud’s portraits of her grandmothers, so brilliantly drawn: one adored — “She was rightly sized for us, at little over five...
...Ten years later, the young woman laughing straight at us in “Razorbill” (2020) is summoned out of an orchestra of browns with touches of white on teeth, eyes and brows that transmit her joie-de-vivre with...
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...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is the painter John Singer Sargent. He had a real grace....
...Here the composition points straight to the 1900s “Murnau Garden” series by Kandinsky, who acknowledged Monet as the catalyst for his understanding of colour....
...Here is an old-school portrait, the subject looking straight at us over her parapet just as the Renaissance Madonnas did....
...I went inside straight away. I had that invigorated feeling that goes hand in hand with a crisis of the best sort....
...“Shows are so straight today: the model is to have one idea, repeated 30 times, and that makes a collection,” he says. “But that doesn’t interest me, I like to rethink, rework.”...
...“I take a chair out to the Woldgate and sit down for half an hour – then when you go straight back to the studio you’ve got a hell of a lot in your head....
...They died out at the same time as dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, leaving behind spectacular fossilised shells – usually spiral but sometimes straight....
...This could come straight from Balzac: Sickert’s literary delight in the “jolie-laide” marks him as the last of the Victorians....
...West Wind” and “Eight Bells” – lashing seascapes where embattled figures fling mind and soul against the elements – share an obsession with the texture, density and physical presence of paint, pointing straight...
...Inside, the scene is straight out of The Devil Wears Prada, or at least Sex and the City - improbably slim women clutching Cosmo cocktails and men with expensively distressed hair bearing champagne flutes...
...Skipping his early calico children-in-pastures and civil war narratives, Dulwich launches straight into the seascapes, opening with the crossover works “Beach Scene” and “On the Beach”....
...Has set the record straight as far as he is concerned. Critics and former colleagues accuse Weill of having a “selective memory”....
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