Word: sargents
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...artist at the time used such sources with as much aplomb. Scorning British good taste and the Edwardian artist's role as the groom of new aristocrats -- a task he left to what he called the "wriggle and chiffon" school of portraiture, led by the American expatriate John Singer Sargent -- Sickert went down a few class notches, looking for a virile, demotic way of painting that did something more with popular culture than peer at it from above...
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...
...example, the life-size portrait "The Spanish Dancer" depicts a figure essentially the same as the main figure in "El Jaleo." As the exhibition tags note, "The Spanish Dancer" "represents Sargent's first complete treatment of the subject he would again take up in the expanded composition of "El Jaleo.'" Her arms and neck show the strength of an accomplished dancer; the blur of her swirling clothing shows the movement of the dance. Singer displays his skill in the precise rendering of her clothing...