tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704237975096102484.post8080986948295794327..comments2024-03-17T06:47:15.292+00:00Comments on The Brooknerian: Indistinguishable from the Real ThingThe Brooknerianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15396427983022927448noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704237975096102484.post-67845800388227147722018-03-14T06:17:48.651+00:002018-03-14T06:17:48.651+00:00Many thanks for your comments. I remember seeing a...Many thanks for your comments. I remember seeing a Sargent exhibition recently, which included watercolours - but I cannot recall where. Somewhere in Mitteleuropa.The Brooknerianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396427983022927448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8704237975096102484.post-66483693077489948272018-03-13T20:58:57.987+00:002018-03-13T20:58:57.987+00:00Hello. Good evening.
One thing that both James a...Hello. Good evening. <br /><br />One thing that both James and Sargent shared a common is, apart from their American citizenship (although Sargent was born in Florence, the only son of an American surgeon, Fitzwilliam Sargent), they both were allegedly hermetically-sealed gay men. It is no surprising that James admired Sargent's paintings. I do not know how much James knew about Sargent's private life or if he had seen especially the studies of men which Sargent portrayed purely for his own pleasure when he was travelling (Sargent's frank and casual depiction of gondoliers in watercolour makes the writing of John Addington Symonds somewhat tame). <br /><br />Brookner is superbly deadpan about Sargent's portraiture, which to a certain extent, I agree that it was a commercial enterprise for him. But his works in general do not press one's nerve like the works by Delacroix or Goya. Even the most impressive painting about the First World War called Gassed (1919, Imperial War Museum), Sargent seems to be more interested in the relationship between men than their psychological which seems to be unquestioned. I do believe that a revelatory ecstasy can be found in his watercolour works - an intimate medium in which he found his utmost freedom. A Super Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02640893790909916004noreply@blogger.com