Did Sargent make a mouth wrong?

[SB Wang]

"Cecilia Beaux vs. J S sargent" is listed #1 in this Google search.

"The information we do have has come from examination of his pictures and direct analysis of his paint. The same commonly available range of pigments is seen in virtually all of the Tate's later portraits and on existing palettes. The range is quite wide but does not include every pigment available at that time. He regularly used Mars yellow (a synthetic iron oxide) and cadmium yellow; viridian and emerald green, sometimes mixed; vermilion and Mars red, both alone and mixed; madder; synthetic ultramarine or cobalt blue; and ivory black, sienna, and Mars brown. The dark backgrounds of many portraits include a mixture of ivory black, Mars brown,and a generous quantity of paint medium: a combination that produces a color similar to the traditional Van Dyke brown. A pale shade of chrome yellow, cerulean blue, red lead, cadmium red, and cobalt violet were found on occasion, but not in every portrait examined. There is a more limited selection of blue and yellow pigments in the later portraits than in the earlier ones. This narrow range of blues,yellows, and greens in his palette went some way to create a color harmony and to fix a cool or a warm overall tone to each painting.
Sargent mixed lighter colors such as flesh tones by adding to lead white, vermilion, and a selection of other pigments including bone black, on occasion rose madder, and even green viridian. Mixing them together roughly on the palette, he then worked them into and onto adjacent brush strokes on the canvas to give more subtle variations in tone."

(Jacqueline Ridge and Joyce Townsend; "How Sargent Made it Look Easy"; American Artist magazine; August, 1999, page 29)

[SB Wang]

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Find out some analyzing of portraits.

[SB Wang]

http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/...arley_Boit.htm

John Singer Sargent's Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

By: Natasha Wallace

[Michele Rushworth]

Thanks for posting this, SB. I'm always interested in reading what makes other artists paint the way they do.

[SB Wang]

Thank you!
View:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhi...portrait2.html

A secret---Why Sargent feels he is like a rabbit?

[Joan Breckwoldt]

Originally Posted by SB Wang

It is as if he could feel the subconscious energy of others (most importantly not disturb it) and transpose it into paint, onto canvas -- possibly even beyond his own conscious understanding.
By: Natasha Wallace

What a powerful and inspirational sentence. Thank you SB for posting all this info on Sargent.

I recenlty saw this painting in the Boston Museum and what was so interesting to me was that the two vases, which were right there next to the painting, were so much more complex than the vases in the painting. At first I wasn't even sure they were the same vases. Sargent had painted only the essence of the vases, not every single little tiny detail. Something worthwhile for me to remember!

Joan

[SB Wang]

Joan: I had a same thought as you. I suspected that the flower/pattern inspired Sargent's brush strokes, which is not true.
I'd like to know the differences between his predecessors and him: Is he the first one to develop that kind of brush stroke,or he refined?

[SB Wang]

Yes Virginia there is (in Baltimore)
There is a clue in this painting, http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/...ur_Doctors.htm[url]
for the possible answer for the question: how can we explain that Sargent painted one figure in dark?

[Jim Riley]

I give! What reason did Sargent give for having one figure in the dark?