Sickert vs Sargent

(2007)

★ 7.9 IMDb · 17 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2007

Runtime: 60 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Waldemar Januszczak

Cast: Waldemar Januszczak

Plot

Sickert vs. Sargent brings to life two of the biggest characters in modern British art; Walter Sickert - the gruff, aggressive man-of-the-people; and John Singer Sargent - the urbane and charming dandy. The film focuses on some of the most beautiful and alarming paintings ever made in this country; pictures of aristocrats and prostitutes, coronations and killings, opera houses and music halls, and will evoke the long-lost atmosphere of Edwardian London. But above all it will show that from their two outposts in Chelsea and Camden, Sickert and Sargent were waging a war whose legacy still haunts us today.