A collection of forty of John Singer-Sargent’s charcoal and pencil drawings where the drawing would have been completed in a single sitting and therefore has a spontaneity about it (as well as underlying classical training to identify key proportional measurements in the face to achieve a likeness of the sitter).
KEY LEARNING POINTS
Expressive drawings can be produced even although they are highly representational.
Importance of drawing from life to capture the sitter’s soul – see argument from Speed (1917), about artistic ‘dither’.
Neil C Drawing 2 