Bedouins
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1905
The Brooklyn
Museum, New
York
Transparent
watercolor
with touches of opaque watercolor on off-white, thick, rough-textured
wove
paper
45.7 x 30.5
cm (18 x
12 in.)
Jpg: local
The power of Sargent's
watercolors is
in the complexity of what matters -- the wonderful faces of these
Bedouins
looking right at us. And the lush flow of color in what doesn't matter
and what our eyes don't normally pick up at first impression -- the
flowing
drape of their clothes. In a single painting, Sargent shows us the the
whole range and beauty of watercolors as a medium.
Notes
Exhibitions
John
Singer
Sargent,
An Exhibition -- Whitney
Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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