{"id":23792,"date":"2018-11-01T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23792"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:35:09","slug":"book-report-sargent-by-clare-gibson-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/01\/book-report-sargent-by-clare-gibson-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Sargent<\/i> by Clare Gibson (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookThis book covers the work of John Singer Sargent, a contemporary of Anders Zorn<\/a> and Mary Cassatt<\/a>. According to the bio, he, too, was the son of a family of comfortable means who travelled Europe to be an artist. He met many of the European artists of the time and was influenced by the Impressionists a bit. <\/p>\n

Aside from what paintings he liked to do (which showed more of the influence of the Impressionists, with less sharp lines), he really made bank as a portrait artist, in demand for a lot of his life by the rich and the famous. Perhaps because of his success in this line, a lot of other artists had mean things to say about him, basically calling him a sell-out.<\/p>\n

Sell-out or not, the portraits and the landscapes are crafted well, and they’re more pleasant for my contemporary eyes than the Renaissance greats. And I can now identify my favorite work by Sargent: Lady Agnew of Lochnaw<\/a>. Just in case anyone asks. Which no one will, because I will have killed the conversation and dispersed the group by sharing my extensive knowledge of seppuku<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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