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In Sargent’s image of Venice at dusk, details are obscured and forms are softened by the fading light, suggested by broadly applied, fluid pigments. Pools of color, accented by curving brushstrokes, evoke the gentle undulation of the murky water of the canal.
Similar dramatic light effects, exotic models, and muted color palettes can be seen in a series of paintings that Sargent painted on a subsequent trip to Venice, with which this work shares both chronology and conceptual similarities.
26 paź 2018 · Media in category "Paintings of Venice by John Singer Sargent" The following 78 files are in this category, out of 78 total.
During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
'The aura of Venice incited the attentions of countless artists and writers in the 19th century, including American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent. When in Venice, Sargent frequented...
About A Street in Venice. The artwork titled “A Street in Venice” by John Singer Sargent, created around 1880 to 1882, is a genre painting that employs oil on canvas. Distinguished by its Realism art movement, the piece measures 75.1 by 52.4 centimeters. It is currently housed at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts ...
In his oils of Venice from the early 1880s, Sargent avoided the picturesque and touristic views painted by many of his contemporaries. Instead, he depicted Venetians engaged in quotidian activities in subdued interiors and in the city’s narrow, dark alleys and passageways.
