Did Sargent make a mouth wrong?

[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?

[Steven Sweeney]

Did Sargent ever say? . . . or is this all conjecture?

[SB Wang]

Jim and Steven:
Thanks for your interest in this post. A long term game from this post will benefit more for SOG and participants, so I'll wait for more discussion , while consulting with scholars, masters.
It's conjecture, but in "Sargent's later portrait", one can find an instance of what Sargent's own thought on a group portrait.
"Conjuncture", maybe, explain part of it.

[SB Wang]

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