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...February 14 to May 6; further information and tickets here ‘Sargent and Fashion’ at Tate Britain Discover how John Singer Sargent used fabric and fashion in his paintings to capture identity and individuality...
...(The American Rothko gave works to Tate because he admired its Turner connection.)...
...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....
...‘Ultrapop’ by The Armed is out now on Sargent House; ‘Lightning Don’t Strike Twice’ by Chubby and the Gang is out now on Partisan, ‘The Mutt’s Nuts’ follows on August 27....
...Thanks to podcast experts Rebecca Seeley Harris, founder of Re Legal Consulting, and Peter Sargent, insolvency expert and consultant at Quantuma Further reading: Read the FT story about how 262 MPs have...
...Then Constable, and on to JMW Turner. Jones on Turner is definitely recommended reading....
...When US artist John Singer Sargent first came to London in the late 19th century he painted in one just down the street....
...lived where Holland Park Lord Leighton, William Frith, William Holman Hunt, George Frederic Watts Kensington Edward Burne-Jones, William Russell Flint, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud Chelsea JMW Turner...
...It had been the romantic, mist-shrouded wharves and water that first attracted the painter JMW Turner to the area, though he lived here almost incognito with his mistress....
...“To live with Sargent’s watercolours is to live with sunshine captured and held,” wrote the artist’s friend Evan Charteris....
...royalacademy.org.uk, 020 7300 8000, to April 10 Cotton to Gold, Two Temple Place, London How Lancashire’s industrial magnates amassed collections ranging from Greek icons, Japanese prints and Turner watercolours...
...That truth of feeling about Venice’s tremulous beauty made the city irresistible, after Turner, as motif and metaphor for the poignancy of old-age creativity: Monet, Sargent, Thomas Mann, Henry James....
...Steve McQueen, a London-born director and former Turner Prize winning artist, won best film for his portrayal of slavery in 12 Years A Slave....
...“The picture’s significance is reflected in its history: it was hugely admired and then bought by another great artist, John Singer Sargent, in 1884....
...But Brabazon did not take himself as seriously as fellow-artists such as Turner, Sargent and Ruskin....
...His seascapes, atmospheric but exquisitely detailed, entered English collections and had an impact on Turner, and he was acclaimed in his youth as “the best of the Dutch marine painters”....
...At the heart of the show’s battle between quality and theory stands, inevitably, Turner....
...In front is the 17th-century Church of Santa Maria della Salute, painted by Turner, Sargent and Canaletto among others. Wide, empty steps lead down towards the water. I can hear it lapping....
...Other contributors include “Angel of the North” sculptor Antony Gormley, 1996 Turner prize winner Douglas Gordon, pop artist Sir Peter Blake and photographer David Bailey....
...Between Turner’s death in 1851 and Queen Victoria’s in 1901, Britain was the world’s economic and political powerhouse but produced art that was at best local and anecdotal, at worst saccharine and anachronistic...
...Such artists as Rembrandt, Veronese, Degas, Sargent, Rubens, Van Dyke, Hals, Monet and Courbet, Bomberg, Turner, Constable, Gainsborough and Van Gogh, more than make good....
...They are collected in this volume, one of 2006’s most satisfying page-turners....
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