Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art | ISBN:0300177356 | File Type: PDF, 400 pages | File size: 76.Mb | Jun. 26th, 2012
Artist Monographs: The Complete Paintings Volume VII From 1900 to 1907 John Singer Sargent 1856 1925 traveled considerably visiting the Alps Italy Spain Norway and alestine In alestine in 1905 he painted a significant group of oils and watercolors as well as a group of studies of the Bedouin It was during this burst of artistic production that he painted The Mountains of Moab Tate Gallery London which was the first pure landscape he ever exhibited Royal Academy 1906 In Italy and Spain Sargent painted parks gardens fountains and statues subjects that reveal his taste for the high style of Renaissance and Mannerist art and for the romantic grandeur of deserted spaces As evidenced by the works in this new volume Sargent reinvented himself as a landscape painter during his travels Expressing a finely developed sense of modernity he selected quirky angles of vision and used a range of compositional strategies compression foreshortening abrupt croppings and receding perspectives in a manner that is quasi photographic He exploited the material qualities of pigment and the impasto is often so thickly applied that figure and landscape seem to dissolve together creating rich near abstract surface patterns The restless handling and dynamic compositional rhythms act in creative tension with the artist s more traditional subject matter generating notions of instability and ambiguity that are distinctly modern in character
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