How Did Sargent Became An Artist

Vincent van Gogh is one of the world’s most well-known artists. He was the son of a pastor and was brought up in a religious atmosphere. He thought his true calling was to preach the gospel like his father. He became a preacher in a small coal mining town. This is when he starting becoming very interested in the people and things that surrounded him. He became an artist at the age of 27.

While the painters after the Impressionism period were collectively called the “Post-Impressionists,” the label is quite reductive. Each artist had their own unique style, from Seurat’s pointillism to Signac’s mosaic-like divisionism, Cezanne, Émile Bernard, and others. These artists were all connected in that they were reacting to the aesthetics of Impressionism. Two of the more influential painters from this movement were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who aimed to connect with viewers on a deeper level by access Nature’s mystery and meaning beyond its superficial, observable level. However, each artist’s approach to achieving this goal was different. In close examination of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), one may clearly see the two artists’ contrasting styles on display.

subject’s action. Many works of his time period were sculptures that were meant to be

By the time he was seventeen, Monet was already making money from his work and had won a local reputation as a caricaturist. Skillful and amusing, his caricatures were displayed in the window of a local frame maker, Monsieur Gravier, where they drew crowds of appreciative viewers. Gravier also displayed paintings by the landscape painter Eugene Boudin, who was an old friend of his. Monet's development of friendship and informal tutelage of Boudin proved to be formative for Monet's future direction as a landscape painter. (Gordon, 38)

He started studying at the Royal Academy in London and married Esther Kenworthy in 1883 then moved to St. John’s Wood. They lived in a purpose built artistic colony .”Early in his career his works appeared similar to the the works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema” and he painted many distinctive painting and was influenced by many talented artist before him. He produced over 200 paintings during his lifetime including “The Lady of Shalott,” “Boreas,” and,“The Crystal Ball.” “ He painted many excellent portraits of women”. His paintings were rich for their color, and was neglected through most of the 20th century. He produced works of mythological and literary themes through the 1890s and 1900s. He taught at St. John’s Wood art school between 1892 and 1913. He left no diaries or journals, and died of cancer in 1917.

paintings was the one of Adam and Eve, he finished it in 1507. It was an oil paint

Sargent was a friend of the girls’ parents, Edward Darley Boit and Mary Louisa Cushing Boit. Edward Boit was a Harvard-trained lawyer, but left his profession to become a painter and Louisa Boit gained a large inheritance from her family who had the legacy of Boston’s China trade. Although they were originally from Boston, Louisa was a very social and vivacious woman who preferred to live in Europe rather than the United States and the painting was painted in France in their elegant house on the avenue of Friedland in the eighth arrondissement, a very luxurious neighborhood much preferred by wealthy Americans. Mr. and Mrs. Boit went to Sargent to paint the portrait of their daughters and when Edward and Louisa first approached Sargent to

I believe he could have painted many other people he met such as Miguel, Earl, and Abe. I think these people also were important

His early paintings had an unconventional, unique, and unfinished look about them. The images were known to everyone in everyday life.

Many of this pictures contributed to studies of various emotions, which were later used in his religious and historical paintings. The may have also been used to illustrate his command of chiaroscuro, or the use of light and shade without color. In one painting deep shadows cover his face, leaving his features almost unrecognizable. In Protestant Holland during this time, religious art was valued as not being important. Even so, biblical and religious subjects accounted for about one-third of his work. Drama, as part of the Baroque period, was fully accentuated.

John Singer Sargent painted The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit in Paris, France in the autumn of 1882. Sargent was friends with the parents Edward Darley Boit and Mary Louisa. Edward was a lawyer from Harvard; and left that career to use one as a painter.The wife also called Isa, preferred Europe over America; her inheritance from Boston’s China Trade brought them to America. Their apartment was in a luxurious neighborhood with wealthy Americans.  In 1882 since the family was wealthy, the daughters in the painting got an education. The four girls were all wearing school dresses or play dresses which symbolize money but, also their education. Also in the painting, Sargent put the girls in entrance hall. There were two Japanese vases that were

In 1939, Jackson Pollock entered psychotherapy for his alcoholism. For him, the doctors saw that producing artwork could serve as a means of therapy for his problem with alcohol. His alcoholism would later come back to haunt him and his works in later years and become the cause of his ultimate demise.

Another interesting component Sargent implemented in his portrait is his attention to detail where one of the daughter has her arms hidden behind her back suggesting that she (or her family) is hiding something. It is difficult to truly understand the meaning of the painting without the context and history of the artist – when looking at the work’s history we are able to see that when Sargent was originally sought out by Edward Darley Boit and in his commission, he decided to create something that was different from the traditional portrait scene. According to the mfa.org regarding Sargent’s unique perspective on the portrait it is revealed that the family was disconnected in their relations. The daughter’s strange spacing and similar clothing in the image further alludes to the idea that even though the daughters of the family are “connected” in reality there are a lot of differences that are unaccounted

Copley’s piece titled Portrait of a Lady in a Blue Dress created in 1763 by John Singleton Copley, represents an unnamed female portrait painted with oil on canvas. The piece currently resides in the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The work of art can be seen from one side only because it hangs on the wall. There is a great deal of indications in the painting to show the viewer who this woman was and how she ranked high within society.

artwork was to open the minds of the people who would look upon it. I never