Basquait and his manipulation of colour
"Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitary use of colour to express myself more forcefully ... To express the love of two lovers by the marriage of two complementary colours ... To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone against a dark ba....

John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Pauline Astor
On a sunny day in May, I made a visit to the Huntington GardenGalleries. At the gallery I was to choose an original piece of art that wasdone in the time period and geographic emphasis of my Western Art HistoryClass. In this gallery I saw The Portrait of Pauline Astor (1898-99) byJohn Singer Sargent....

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