Thanks, Joe. That's a cool picture. A bit more free-form than Sarget's
usual stiff & formal style.

One of his better oils IMO.

All his nautical paintings are the best of his work. He worked hard
doing portraits all his life, he did marine and natural scenes on his
off time, because that is what he wanted to paint. His later
watercolors (cant find many on the web) are some of the most brilliant
simple harbor marine painting ever painted. He is noted for doing so
much with so little. Im sure 100's of his WC's are still un-discovered.

Joe

Should a painting neessarily look real? If so, then why bother to paint

a picture when you can take one with a camera?

No, but clearly he was trying to make it look real and failed. It not
impressionist work, it's failed rendering IMO.

Joe

Should a painting neessarily look real? If so, then why bother to paint
a picture when you can take one with a camera?


Joe wrote:
No, but clearly he was trying to make it look real and failed.

???

That's pretty impressive, you can tell what the guy was thinking just
from looking at the painting?



... It not
impressionist work, it's failed rendering IMO.


Hopper isn't one of my favorites, but after seeing some of his paintings
which are definitely master works, I went back & looked at his sailboat
paintings again. Still worth a look, IMHO, and obviously a lot of people
(not necessarily sailors) like them.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King