Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

The Fading light of the sun is being replaced by the lanterns being held by these children it is that moment at Twilight when artificial light just begins to assert itself against the light of the day it is a wonderful and haunting time of the day and Sergeant captured it in his painting Carnation Lily Lily Rose from 1885 to six you know that title is pretty poetic and the repetition in the title really gives us a sense of the idea of repetition of form and light throughout this painting look at the way that those Japanese lanterns move from left to right across the middle of this canvas forming a curving arabas across the center they're almost like the notes that you would find in a musical score and we do read across but of course our eye also stops because there 's so much that's beautiful to look at here all we have is this really Lush Rich surface there's nobody