Winslow Homer & John Singer Sargent: Technique Comparison with Curator Nancy Burns

[@DonAndrewsAWS]

I've been painting exclusively in watercolor for 50 years and with painter friends have visited the Worcester museum and seen these master works, your comments, observations and criticisms are superb, to the point and offered to the viewer, layman or professional with knowledge, insight and respect! Very well done!

[@nathanielmoody3656]

The two greatest watercolorists, together! I’ve been fascinated and studied their contrasting styles and processes for decades.

[@jehovahuponyou]

THAT WAS A GOOD VIDEO - THEM ALLIGATORS WERE SCARY TOO (LOL) - GREAT PAINTINGS - BRAVO!!!

[@danthomas6587]

The Philly museum had a wonderful exhibit on watercolor over the centuries with many painters including Sargent and Homer in the same room. What stuck with me was their draftsmanship. They were skilled with drawing in a way that we lack today. Anyway, great talk, enjoyed it much.

[@funwithFred]

My two favorite Watercolorists. Was so lucky to see their combined exhibit at the Philly Museum of Art several years ago. Was in heaven.

[@davidhunternyc1]

Educational and enlightening. Homer and Sargent are masters of their medium. Both use watercolors to describe and unfix vision simultaneously. Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.

[@JaladhiPujara]

This is brilliant! Please share more!

[@lynnblack6493]

What a great overview of watercolour technique. As a non artist and with no background - I really appreciated. Oh to have been in Worcester!

[@throughmyeyes9940]

your enthusiasm/knowledge is most welcome and deserved

[@sharonhughes2435]

Love this excerpt and GREAT detailed knowledge shared about the techniques. Please do more like these on artists! I am an Art Teacher in Wellfleet Mass originally from Worcester & used to teach at WAM!

[@Eris123451]

I did enjoy it and it was interesting to see some fine new pictures, pictures with which I hadn't previously been familiar, thank you.

[@markdonovan1540]

Curator Nancy Burns has a very keen eye and her insights are superb. I'd love to hear her do a review of some of Edward Seago's work.

[@M0odyBlue]

Great talk! I love Sargent’s work and his palette. His Bermuda paintings are among my favorites.

[@jimjimgl3]

Great idea for a show. I've always been flabbergasted by Sargent's bravura watercolor technique...

[@jsit6578]

Great explanation, thank you !

[@nunyabiznes4471]

Thank you! This was excellent!

[@taylorshaw]

Thanks for a truly spectacular presentation. I only wish I could be there to see the exhibit and hear more of your excellent comments in person.

[@suzanne1529]

fascinating ♥

[@tomlehr861]

Thanks

[@superfly2449]

Spectacular ‘gator portrait. I saw an excellent show several years ago at the local museum that made me a Sargent fan.

[@janewebb4483]

Next time, consider no back ground music. It was distracting and on a repetitive loop that was nauseating. I really enjoyed the information, but the over dub music was uncomfortable.

[@johnerdmann2700]

WONDERFUL

[@judyparker8459]

Really wonderful to see these together in a video and wish I could visit. However, I'm wondering if I were to get there and sign up for a tour, would there be music playing at the same time as the guide gave their talk? I don't recall any museum ever having piped in music unless it was a critical part of the exhibition but in a video the practice persists unaccountably. Please consider the underlying music here to be as distracting as it'd be if played during real time. Especially for those with hard of hearing issues, any kind of music at any volume, even as low as you have it here, can be an issue. Here, it was more than obvious when it was paused (a relief!) and then started up again (curses!). Not only is it a fallacious myth that all videos made today require a soundtrack under speech, the reverse actually makes for a far better video when someone speaking makes up the majority of the overall sound track. A little music at the beginning and the end is like having matching bookends but you wouldn't place them in-between books, right? Thank you for your consideration on this, at least. Again, love seeing watercolor artwork finally coming into its rightful place in the art world, and thank you for helping toward that.

[@Watercolorpancddude-hv8zp]

Homer is an interesting person to study ref watercolors. I read a book which even covered what specific paint types he used. He documented a lot. Windsor and Newton pans, mostly. I learned a lot reading that book, and learned to use opaque colors, and especially scraping by looking at Homer's watercolors. I like how you refer to it as "subtractive painting." This comment is too late, but if by chance you see it, any chance you know the weight of the paper Homer used? Must of been really heavy, given that massive amount of scraping he did on the Friends piece.

[@righthorse]

Great job! I will be coming from S C in October to see this exibition.

[@worcesterartmuseum]

Thanks for planning a visit! Unfortunately, this exhibition closed on September 10th. We will have a Faith Ringgold exhibition opening on October 7th, however, and our other works on display are always worth a view, of course.

[@zvonimirtosic6171]

@7:29, It's not "aggressive removal of paint", but forceful and deep removal of paint. Subtractive methods in watercolours are always carefully measured and done by design.

[@hammoussiu.c.w8816]

Your art work very well

[@orhanuralortac2566]

👍

[@woutdezeeuw1604]

Great presentation, but the music really detracts from the message.

[@keen6808]

I would suggest giving Nancy a proper microphone to reduce the echo. And for God's sake, stop inserting annoying music into the video.

[@worcesterartmuseum]

Thanks for the feedback - we've upgraded all our equipment since shooting this video 🥰 new videos with Nancy are coming soon with the opening of our new exhibition next weekend!

[@keen6808]

@@worcesterartmuseum Thank you.

[@MariaM-up2he]

I have a BA in Art history and art Studio . I am an artist for more than 40 years. Most curators can’t draw and don’t know anything about how to make art because they are not artists. They just repite what others say. Art History is the History of the Art not the making of the art. They always say disparaging comments because they don’t have a clue how to make art. They are not artisans, only recounts history. One day they will figure out how ridiculous they look. They are pretenders it’s embarrassing.

[@bhansen316]

more echo please

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

worcester was a big deal town in the early 20th century.

[@MariaM-up2he]

White opaque watercolor it’s not watercolor it’s gouache. What is sponging? I never heard that. You mean he lifts the color when is wet with a paper towel???Theres not a tool to scrape watercolor you just made that up.The paper although thick it’s fragile. To get that white it’s the paper white and its use masking fluid , you cover the area that you want white. Then let it dry, continue painting and when are you done peel the masking fluid it’s like a plastic thing exposing the paper white. Also you can use white gouache that it’s not opaque watercolor it’s a different medium.That speckle effect is what it’s called dry brush lady. It’s not an illusion, artist sketch fast. Embarrassing 😳

[@Phoyographer]

Nancy, enter Islam and success