tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post825769646191949000..comments2024-03-28T16:36:12.581-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Disruptive ColorationJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-29039804716511249992015-03-05T17:39:40.773-05:002015-03-05T17:39:40.773-05:00Sargent's "The Hermit" is in the Met...Sargent's "The Hermit" is in the Met. It is a fabulous painting. I've seen it several times and revel in it more each time. Great, great stuff.Robert J. Simonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06799208093956328662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-59993949204721718562015-03-05T14:34:07.357-05:002015-03-05T14:34:07.357-05:00I don't agree with Don here:
Imagine Singer S...I don't agree with Don here:<br /><br />Imagine Singer Sargent doing this kind of work in one of his upper class society paintings. There he certainly followed the rules laid down by Don; no lack of contrasts and edges...<br /><br />I can hardly imagine a harder contrast than between some vain upper class society people and an eremite!<br /><br />So in this ermite experiment he just loosened up the contrasts (both value and color); painting this half naked self-outcasted eremite, instead of the usual gorgeous clad ladies: He somehow went from "high society" to "low society", so to say.<br /><br />"Low" can be high, like Diogenes in his can:-) another eremite,... and "High" sometimes can be...<br /><br />In short: <br />The concept of an eremite has been quite successfully illustrated here, IMO.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233420155151875249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-72537772826019360252015-03-05T04:22:51.651-05:002015-03-05T04:22:51.651-05:00I have to agree with Don here. It might be a perso...I have to agree with Don here. It might be a personal preference, but these paintings just don't work for me. They have no focal point.henahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18186551487016146291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-4786835616380275192015-03-04T21:23:12.410-05:002015-03-04T21:23:12.410-05:00It's interesting, but I don't think the pa...It's interesting, but I don't think the paintings work. I think one reason is that in order to succeed in creating the illusion of 3-Dimensional reality in a piece of 2-D artwork, artists need to use certain techniques and principles that help separate objects of different distances. Contrast (both value and color) and edges often need to be manipulated in order to avoid unintentional "camouflaging." This is obviously just my opinion, but I would consider the the Sargent shown as a failed experiment - and I can't even make out what the subject is in the other example!Don Ketchekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17292878945237514865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-41237990498682408142015-03-04T21:11:17.362-05:002015-03-04T21:11:17.362-05:00Interesting too how an artist (you may know Keith ...Interesting too how an artist (you may know Keith from his Greenwich images) has contributed beyond the canvas...<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/air-force-sees-beauty-in-ugly-ducklings.html<br /><br />RossAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13402427221513043149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-81952955116684254942015-03-04T14:31:14.170-05:002015-03-04T14:31:14.170-05:00Rich, interesting that you should bring up the spi...Rich, interesting that you should bring up the spiritual associations of the image. According the the Met Museum website, "When approving 'The Hermit' as the translated title of the picture, Sargent wrote to the director of the Metropolitan, “I wish there were another simple word that did not bring with it any Christian association, and that rather suggested quietness and pantheism.”<br /><br />Tom, it's big of you to admit that. Me, too. I somehow knew there was one gazelle, but I had missed the second one.<br /><br />Robert, glad you mentioned the Bev Doolittle examples. I think they called her style 'camouflage art.' Often the pattern of spots formed yet another hidden image.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-57195141992275955112015-03-04T14:03:55.349-05:002015-03-04T14:03:55.349-05:00Oneness in Nature.
Disruptive Coloration; rendered...Oneness in Nature.<br />Disruptive Coloration; rendered by those painters. How interesting an entry.<br /><br />"We Are One."<br />...the Singer Sargent Hermit somehow looks overwhelmed (and perhaps enlightened) by the overall Unity.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233420155151875249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-43015535672305432552015-03-04T12:03:24.256-05:002015-03-04T12:03:24.256-05:00Wow! I don't know how many times I've seen...Wow! I don't know how many times I've seen that Sargent, but I never spotted the gazelles before!Tom Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04770238579550226268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-59338894284911189092015-03-04T11:13:38.663-05:002015-03-04T11:13:38.663-05:00Brings to mind the art of Bev Doolittle which jump...Brings to mind the art of Bev Doolittle which jumped to popularity several years back. Also related is the "fade-away" illustration art of the early 20th century as exemplified by Coles Phillips.Robert Michael Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16542802281109974073noreply@blogger.com