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John Singer Sargent: Studies for "El Jaleo" and "The Spanish Dancer...
Jaleo is the Spanish word for ruckus or uproar. In 1886, John Singer Sargent masterfully captured the uproar of the flamenco dance in his well-known work "El Jaleo...
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a friend and patron of John Singer Sargent. She went to Spain in 1888, and it fascinated her--she said of the country: "Here one feels existence." She soon began collecting the artwork that now adorns the Spanish Cloister of the Museum. Her cousin gave her "El Jaleo," the focal point of this area. Later, Sargent presented his patron with the sketches for this painting...
...Sargent's sketches and studies capture the motion that he saw in the flamenco dance. Some of the works are quick sketches of the faces, hands and arms of the main figure and of the background figures; others are complete works in themselves...
...Many of the schools are in sort of differentplaces and approaching things in different ways,"said Holly T. Sargent, associate dean fordevelopment at the Kennedy School of Government...