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John Singer Sargent and late 19thce Portraiture
kind of revolutionary, not academic way, casual
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
11/09/2017

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John S. Sargent. Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. 1880
-isolated in room
-why arent they painted together
-oddly separate, vase is cutoff
-none of girls ever married
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John Singer Sargent. Madame X. 1880
-so risqu, Femme Fatale
-eccentric beauty
-prominent couple, husband did not like it
-She thought he was mocking her
-stylized professional beauty but forgets about her character
-object of beauty
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John Sargent. Wyndham Sisters. 1900
-society portraiture
-sargent is famous now
-sense of fluid dynamic brush stroke, very well technically
-royal academies loved him
-King Edward offered him knighthood but he dened it
-not a deep down characterization
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Cecelia Beaux. Sita and Sarita. 1895
-more sympathetic than eakins
-paints upper class and shows oppulence
-provactive blending of cat and hair into background
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Cecelia Beaux. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. 1895
-she dominates the portrait
-documents wealth
-nice and at ease with eachother
-awkward size
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