I don't think Sargent had much to learn from most of the Russians. The famous Ukrainian painter Ilya Repin - whose technique was later used for propaganda purposes only - said to Finnish master Järnefelt in the 1890's that Russian art drags Finnish art by 40 years, and Finland's internationally most known artist and Sargent's friend Edelfelt replied - "probably 20 years is enough". A couple of masterpieces here, but many a bit clumsy, compared with the French school, or the Latvian Jew Isaac Levitan - or even the Russian Ivan Shiskin. My opinions, everyone has the right to disagree, if there's a reason for that.
Very nice paintings by this artist Phil. You spoke about not using too many values because that only adds to more detail. I was thinking about this too, would it be best to use just 4 values in a painting? And then just use color temperature and broken color to change/modify the various values?
Yes, of course the bigger the painting the more values needed. For a larger painting I will use 3 values in the light and 3 in the shadow. and use temperature contrast and broken color.
Thanks for sharing Phil love your narration! 👍👍🇨🇦
Your welcome Jeff!
Interesting artwork, thank you
Thanks Mary
The Russian impressionists are bloody awesome....Sergent would die for some of these pictures.
I don't think Sargent had much to learn from most of the Russians. The famous Ukrainian painter Ilya Repin - whose technique was later used for propaganda purposes only - said to Finnish master Järnefelt in the 1890's that Russian art drags Finnish art by 40 years, and Finland's internationally most known artist and Sargent's friend Edelfelt replied - "probably 20 years is enough". A couple of masterpieces here, but many a bit clumsy, compared with the French school, or the Latvian Jew Isaac Levitan - or even the Russian Ivan Shiskin. My opinions, everyone has the right to disagree, if there's a reason for that.
Very nice paintings by this artist Phil. You spoke about not using too many values because that only adds to more detail. I was thinking about this too, would it be best to use just 4 values in a painting? And then just use color temperature and broken color to change/modify the various values?
Yes, of course the bigger the painting the more values needed. For a larger painting I will use 3 values in the light and 3 in the shadow. and use temperature contrast and broken color.
Thanks Phil