Walter Richard Sickert: A collection of 246 paintings (HD)

Walter Richard Sickert: A collection of 246 paintings (HD)
Description: "(Born Munich, 31 May 1860; died Bathampton, Somerset, 22 January 1942). British painter, printmaker, teacher, and critic, one of the most important figures of his time in British art. He was born in Germany of a Danish-German father and an Anglo-Irish mother and his outlook was appropriately cosmopolitan. The family settled in London in 1868. Both his father and his grandfather were painters, but Sickert-after a good classical education-initially trained for a career on the stage, 1877-81.
He toured with Sir Henry Irving's company but never progressed beyond small parts and in 1881 he abandoned acting and became a student at the Slade School. In the following year he became a pupil of Whistler, and in 1883 he worked in Paris with Degas. Between 1885 and 1905 he spent much of his time in Dieppe, living there 1899-1905, and also visited Venice several times. From 1905, when he returned to England, he became the main channel for influence from avant-garde French painting in British art-inspiring a host of younger artists with the force of his personality as well as the quality of his work. The Allied Artists' Association (1908), the Camden Town Group (1911), and the London Group (1913) were all formed largely by artists in his circle. In 1918-22 he again lived in or near Dieppe, then settled permanently in England, living in London and Brighton before moving to Broadstairs, Kent (1934), and finally to Bathampton, near Bath (1938).
Sickert took the elements of his style from various sources but moulded them into a highly distinctive manner. From Whistler he derived his subtle modulations of tone, although his harmonies were more sombre and his touch rougher, using thick crusty paint. To Degas he was indebted particularly for his method of painting from photographs and for the informality of composition this encouraged. His favourite subjects were urban scenes and figure compositions, especially pictures of the theatre and music hall and drab domestic interiors. Sickert himself wrote in 1910 that ‘The more our art is serious, the more will it tend to avoid the drawing-room and stick to the kitchen.’ This attitude permeates his most famous painting, Ennui, a compelling image of a stagnant marriage, of which he painted several versions, that in the Tate, London (c.1914), being the largest and most highly finished. His later works-often based on press photographs or Victorian illustrations-are very broadly handled, with the canvas often showing through the paint in places. The colour is generally much higher keyed than in his earlier work and sometimes almost Expressionist in its boldness. The prevailing critical opinion for many years was that these late works marked a significant decline, but major claims have recently been made for them, particularly following the 1981 Arts Council exhibition ‘Late Sickert: Painting 1927 to 1942’.
As well as painting, Sickert was an outstanding etcher (he learnt the technique from Whistler) and a great teacher (he opened seven private art schools, each of brief duration, and also taught part-time at Westminster School of Art, 1908-12 and 1915-18). He was celebrated for his wit and charm and was a stimulating talker and an articulate writer on art; Osbert Sitwell edited a posthumous collection of his writings entitled A Free House! (1947). Sickert was married three times; his third wife (from 1926) was the painter Thérèse Lessore (1884-1945). His brother Bernard Sickert (1862/3-1932) was a landscape painter and etcher. He was a member of the New English Art Club.
Since the 1970s there have been several misguided attempts (in books and television programmes) to implicate Sickert in the Jack the Ripper murders that brought terror to the Whitechapel district of London in autumn 1888: apart from other considerations, Sickert was probably in France when most of the crimes were committed."
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Thanks for all support!

[@rizmark5522]

He snap shots moments in time with great feeling. Patricia Cornwall has got him very wrong. She misses out many important facts that most Ripperologist know but she did make a few findings possible in her book but Walter Sickert was not Jack, no way! A great artist like him was not a monster! You can feel his emotion through his paintings!

[@markwardel6751]

sublime.....I saw the 1981 exhibition and have adored 'late' Sickert ever since. Great video

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

Great landscapes and colors and portraits.

[@edwardnobles6418]

What an artist. Fabulous.

[@jacquiturrell3151]

thank you for uploading this compilation. really enjoyable.

[@blazeoshea6693]

What an artist 🎨

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

Very good.

[@janicegeorge-allen1924]

I very much wish to see SICKERTS WORKS..Have enjoyed .

[@triconcert]

Didn't find much that was dark. Interesting perspective from another artist's hand. Taking example of how to be more painterly. Can't handle the saccharine music track though. Thanks for sharing.

[@ne.7700]

What I could conceptualize from his darker paintings are women in moments of solitude with a man in the distance observing her while the sun was going down. Also, I could see in some of the women's faces a cartoonish distortion of the eyes -- like doll's eyes, while the men's portraits show contemplative, sharp eyes. Maybe just my imagination.

[@edwardnobles6418]

How could he prowl the streets and still accomplish this.

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

He was there in the right place and the wrong time. He was made a patsy.

[@jogriffiths5766]

He captured the very essence of this 'life.' Such use of light & colour. Wow!!!

[@alexanderarkum4793]

Damn.....Jack the ripper had some talent

[@junkettarp8942]

The light.

[@nicolelabram5575]

Wonderful!

[@markwardel6751]

Can anyone tell me what this music is?

[@TommyGunnarsson-fm9vc]

2:58🖤

[@junkettarp8942]

The freedom.

[@junkettarp8942]

I want it.

[@5purnlad]

Sickert was in France for most of the Ripper murders.

[@brianvincent7556]

Not heard that before, John. Can you please expand on that statement?

[@elainewright8390]

read the books when he was in France there were similar murders, its been proven he was in UK, London, when the Whitechapel murders happened

[@alexhaggerty39]

buzz fead believes joseph barnett who actually lived with mary kelly was the most likely the ripper as he he had great distain for prostitutes and wanted her off the streets and the first murder worked for a time till he lost his job as a fish merchant and knew the area well all passage ways canals and the like but the damming information was how the muder took place as he lived with her and it seemed to have been done of a familiar nature of the surroundings locks and the like . even though he was questioned for over four hours and let go there would have been to many questions today regarding him. and after that the murders stopped. in the case of sickert he lived till 1942 to his 82 year. as pointed out how could a man doing such unthinkable evils just stop unless there was a reason for him to stop or his life was ended . that would be the question and sickert was obsessed with jack the ripper but does that make him a killer it mades him andf oddball quoting buzzfead and obviously i think what says it all the evil could only have stopped for a reason od an agenda he had or his agenda was stopped by his death. so if sickert was the ripper how could he have controlled this evil after stopping with the death of mary kelly and lived more than another 40 years that doesnt make sense . one mystery i know we would like to have solved

[@floydkingi4364]

@@alexhaggerty39 Maybe he didnt stop, Camden Town Murder..

[@alexhaggerty39]

@@floydkingi4364 floyd thankyou for your response i find in interesting you mentioned the camden town murder i would appreciate your theory on this thankyou floyd

[@floydkingi4364]

Most serial killers lived relatively normal lives, but a part of them was very sinister and evil which they managed to keep hidden. Most of these paintings are quite normal but a few of them are very dark. Perhaps this reflects his life/personality/behavior

[@motomark9736]

She bought up his painting s then created the theory made millions lol

[@disowned2821]

How dark

[@ddivincenzo1]

I fail to see anything dark about this.

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

Me too

[@anastasiabananastasia]

some of them are disturbing

[@bernaldelcastillo1768]

Some of his paintings are dark, sinister and vulgar and he was very interested in Jack the Ripper, but he was not JTR

[@blazeoshea6693]

I had the misfortune of listening to 15 hours of audio claiming he's jack the ripper , he's jack the ripper!!!! Awfully sad...