/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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We're all gonna make it brahs

>economic brushstrokes
>master at portraits
>kills with a limited pallete
>one day he just decided to just die
>never improved after that

Seriously, fuck this fucktard. So lazy. He thinks being dead is a good enough reason to stop improving. It's been a century since his last painting, and he decided to become a NEET and just sleep in his underground chamber. Fuck this guy.

Remembered that Monday night's are usually busy for me so I won't be doing any weekly modernism threads on that day, looks like only 2 people cared anyway, lol.

Thought about bringing up Sargent in this thread since I saw him mentioned in another. He's an interesting figure because he was generally not really considered an impressionist due to his more mannerist tendencies but he was also a little too messy to be categorized with Boug and the gang. His reputation fell pretty hard in the 20th century because of his reluctance to go balls deep into avant-garde culture like his contemporaries, instead he mostly chose to play it safe and not rock the boat on his career. His resurgence in reputation seems to mostly come from illustrators and Sunday painters, which I think probably suits him. I liked Sargent in my 1st and 2nd year painting classes but the more I got into Modernism the more I disliked him. All those portraits, they're like photoshopped Cosmo covers, one after another of bankers, lawyers, politicians, actors, and general celebrities of his time. Rich cocksucker, one after the next. When you look at Sargent's pictures, there's not much there besides a bit of fancy brushwork. The only time he tried to really say anything with his work was "Gassed" which I thought was pretty boring, looks like something Rockwell would do.
Some quotes on Sargent-
"He is not an enthusiast but rather rather an adroit performer" -Pissaro
"He was not an impressionist in the sense that we use the word, he was too much under the influence of Carlolus-Duran." -Monet