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John Singer Sargent Paintings, Singer Sargent Paintings, Sargent Paintings, John Sargent, Sargent Art, Oil Portraits, Master Paintings, Painted Portraits, Painting Portraits

I found this great image online. you could just sense the paints thickness, he preached to let the paint retain the tracks of the brush. i have a little suspicion that as much as he squinted he would also blurred his vision with eyes wide open in order to eliminate the number of planes and detail, in order to see color mass and color variations. This is why i think he was among the greatest to capture flesh tones because he then was more able to see color by itself instead of color as the…

J C Leyendecker Illustration Art, Leyendecker Study, Leyendecker Illustrations, Leyendecker Art, Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Head Studies, Gouache Ideas, Master Studies, Illustration Kunst

This is part of an occasional series dealing with detail images of paintings featuring the brushwork of the artist. Previous posts can be found via the "Up close" topic label link on the sidebar. The present post deals with J.C. (Joseph Christian) Leyendecker (1874-1951), one of the most successful illustrators during the first four decades of the last century. His production of cover art for The Saturday Evening Post, America's leading general-interest magazine at the time, was roughly…

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