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The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism—Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860—it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

John Singer Sargent

Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

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Born: January 12, 1856

Died: April 14, 1925 (aged 69)

Bio: John Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury.

Known for:

Portrait of Madame X (1884)
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1886)
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882)
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1892)
El Jaleo (1882)

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