John Singer Sargent : drawings and paintings
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Figurative painters | John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent was one of the great turn of the century artists. A true cosmopolitan, he was born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris and then moved to London. His dazzling society portraits are at once flattering, penetrating and brilliantly executed. A friend of Monet, he also made an important contribution to the introduction of Impressionism to England.He painted two United States presidents, the aristocracy of Europe, the new and emerging tycoons and barons of business -- Rockefeller, Sears, Vanderbilt; and he painted gypsies, tramps, and street children with the same gusto and passion. He hiked through the Rocky Mountains with a canvas tent under pouring rain to paint the beauty of waterfalls, and painted near the front lines during World War I to capture the horrors of war. He painted the back alleys of Venice, sleeping gondoliers, fishing boats and the dusty side streets of Spain.
Alex Kanevsky Cong Hua Lu Davoud Emdadian David Hockney Dan Thompson Golucho Jan Esmann John Sargent Jordan Wolfson Jeffrey T. Larson Jennifer Anderson Kathe Kollwitz Kent Williams Lucian Freud Mohsen Irani Maya Kulenovic Mojgan Najafi Nick Lepard Olga Boznanska Qiang Huang Reza Hedayat Scott Burdick Siavash Mahvis Tiina Heiska Vania Comoretti Vahid Chamani Valentin Serov Yue Minjun
