"The Coat is The Picture": John Singer Sargent, Painting, and Fashion

What happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of an artist? Who decides what you wear for your portrait, and what message will your image send when it goes out into the world? Take an in-depth look at the role of dress in John Singer Sargent’s work and see how the painter manipulated fashion-and his sitters-in the service of his art.
Erica Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings, Art of the Americas
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

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Thank you for the very best presentation of the art work. With the insight of sitters, the period of fashion, modernism, and critiques of the time, we can understand Sargent was a sort of revolutionary artist in a way. Finally I understand why his portrais vividly manifest the characters of sitters.

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soulless explanation.. 😪😪