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I am cool to most painting art and the art world that glorifies it.

But I am enchanted by personalities, of artists who dared to be different and in doing so became singularly influential on others' work as well as their own.

One of these is Sargent whose work I have seen in the original several times. Stunning presences.

There is a fine review his work and a new show at the Met in the New York Times.

Review: Sargent’s Intimate Portraits of Friends at the Metropolitan Museum

All evidence would point to the fact that Sargent was straight. This is well before the time that such distinctions were thought to be either interesting or in good taste. How we have fallen.

In any event, since we have ended up here, let me observe that Sargent's work is intensely homo-erotic in many of his commissioned portraits of men and in some of his studies that have survived.

Never mind. We gays are always looking for the plum in the pudding. It comes with being a subjugated, repressed, and now, flamboyant group of people.

You will like the works in any case. They brim with life. If nothing else click onto the art link and see for yourself.

The portraits are beautifully done and while not photographic by any means allow us to see the personalities of the people portrayed.

On the other hand, the works that involve the world at large are full of innovation and delight. This is one, simply enough, an anonymous bather.

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