John Salchak Watercolor

John Salchak is available to teach workshops, conduct watercolor demonstrations, do lectures and judge shows.  If you are interested please use the form on the right to contact him.

Details about his John Singer Sargent lecture are below:

THE WATERCOLORS OF JOHN SINGER SARGENT

This lecture, illustrated with approximately 80 slides, will overview the career of artist John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) and will focus on his watercolors painted between 1900 and 1922.

John Singer Sargent was most famous during his lifetime as a portrait painter ofhigh society. During his career he painted nearly 600 formal portraits in oil, but he also painted approximately 1600 watercolors and over 600 landscape and genre paintings in oil. From 1900 until his death in 1925, Sargent traveled extensively to escape the pressures of his portrait work. On these trips, often lasting months, he would paint for his own pleasure in both oil and watercolor. But more and more watercolor became his primary medium as it seemed to fill his need for unhampered expression. Today many artists and critics consider his watercolors his greatest achievement. He is ranked with Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) as one of America’s greatest painters in watercolor. His first biographer, Evan Charteris, wrote "to live with Sargent’s watercolors is to live with sunshine captured and held".

My objective in this lecture is to share my pleasure in Sargent’s light filled watercolors and point out the painting techniques he used. My knowledge is based on many years of studying his work and personal observation of the original paintings. The lecture starts with slides of some of Sargent’s portraits and genre paintings done in oil accompanied by a brief commentary on his life and career that will put his watercolors in context. This is followed by photos of Sargent working on location and then 73 slides of his watercolors presented in chronological order with a commentary on each painting. The presentation time is approximately one hour and twenty minutes.

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