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Ferdinand Hodler self portraits
Perhaps Switzerland's greatest artist, Ferdinand Hodler brought a monumental strength to Symbolist and Art Nouveau painting. His work had a clarity of light, color and structure that made his work both modern and timeless. He produced a series of uncompromising self portraits throughout his long career. Over the years Hodler's strong weathered features seemed to peer stoically into the future.
Leon Bonnat- one bearded fox
The french artist Bonnat started his career as a religious painter, but achieved his greatest fame as a portraitist. His brooding face was immortalized in an early self portrait as well as some stunningly penetrating portraits by his friend Edgar Degas.
John Singer Sargent's eye for beauty
No other artist could capture the beauty of a sitter with such seeming effortlessness as Sargent. At the height of his career, he was asked to capture the likenesses of America and Europe's most glamorous and influential people. Of course, most of his portraits were of the wealthy, but occasionally his brush represented less privileged subjects. Sargent was partial to beauty over all else. Where do we see this most evident? It is in the depiction of men; sometimes his creative friends, and other times mere models, that John Singer Sargent's emotional candor and sensuality flourishes.
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