Abstract

SANCHEZ ARISTEO, Ángel Samuel  and  ZARZA VILLEGAS, Susana Silva. John Singer Sargent: from industrial luxury to social transformation. Valenciana [online]. 2023, vol.16, n.31, pp.57-78.  Epub Apr 28, 2023. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v15i31.683.

Conditioned by the economic mode of each social formation, painting has participated -and not to a lesser extent- in the adaptation. Its governing images have given body and shape to the ideological gears, and its functional value has been redirected to the mere fetishistic relation. Under this classification assigned in advance to the phenomenon, in the moment when the paint is, immediately ceases to be itself. On the other hand, art has autonomy and freedom as a condition, and in the artist is not decisive the harmonic consciousness, since he is in dialectic with social reality intervening in its transformation. This article attempts to account for how the life and oeuvre of John Singer Sargent make reference to this antinomic nature, which remind us the idea and reality of freedom itself. For the analysis, those authors who have tried to rescue the world of instrumental rationality are recovered.

Keywords : Fetishism; Transformation; Art; Artist; Nature.