DOI Heft:
No. 84 (March, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The art of John S. Sargent, R. A., [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0121
yohn S. Sargent, R.A.
been able to appreciate exactly when Velasquez own intuition and his own choice of method he
spoke truths that will endure for ever, and when could most surely arrive at those artistic qualities
he was merely repeating the momentary gossip of that appealed to him as chiefly memorable in the
the society in which he moved and worked. great leaders of his profession. It has given him,
To the man who is at work to-day, such an as well, the courage to avoid the traditions of the
insight into the ways of a master who is an schools, and to launch out into that wide sea
authority for all time, because when he lived he where he must battle alone, and out of reach of
was a modern of the moderns, has a peculiarly any comforting support to which he could cling if
illuminating influence. In the case of Mr. the waves of opposition threatened to beat him
Sargent it has operated to save him from ever down. He saw how others had dared to be
becoming a copyist. It has confirmed him, independent, and he was fired by what he saw to
indeed, in the belief that by depending upon his prove himself no less able than they to keep afloat
and steer in the direc-
tion he preferred. His
^/—-^ ambition, however, was
//■' N. not a large and general
^ ' 0ne' C°m^t;'lenS'Ve
^ ^ ^ rate tha
"> "',/'"'*■' , ■ the extent of his own
sympathy with what was
real and concrete, he
knew that he was re-
ceptive to impressions
made upon him by
> types of personality and
markedly individual
character; and he did
that he could find in
study of drapeky by j. s. sargent, r.a. the modern man or
108
been able to appreciate exactly when Velasquez own intuition and his own choice of method he
spoke truths that will endure for ever, and when could most surely arrive at those artistic qualities
he was merely repeating the momentary gossip of that appealed to him as chiefly memorable in the
the society in which he moved and worked. great leaders of his profession. It has given him,
To the man who is at work to-day, such an as well, the courage to avoid the traditions of the
insight into the ways of a master who is an schools, and to launch out into that wide sea
authority for all time, because when he lived he where he must battle alone, and out of reach of
was a modern of the moderns, has a peculiarly any comforting support to which he could cling if
illuminating influence. In the case of Mr. the waves of opposition threatened to beat him
Sargent it has operated to save him from ever down. He saw how others had dared to be
becoming a copyist. It has confirmed him, independent, and he was fired by what he saw to
indeed, in the belief that by depending upon his prove himself no less able than they to keep afloat
and steer in the direc-
tion he preferred. His
^/—-^ ambition, however, was
//■' N. not a large and general
^ ' 0ne' C°m^t;'lenS'Ve
^ ^ ^ rate tha
"> "',/'"'*■' , ■ the extent of his own
sympathy with what was
real and concrete, he
knew that he was re-
ceptive to impressions
made upon him by
> types of personality and
markedly individual
character; and he did
that he could find in
study of drapeky by j. s. sargent, r.a. the modern man or
108