American painter (1834-1903)
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He called his most famous painting an "arrangement in grey and black." The world called it Whistler's Mother — and turned it into the defining image of maternal devotion, which must have irritated a man who spent his career insisting that art had nothing to do with sentiment.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born July 10, 1834, and built his career primarily in the United Kingdom, painting in oils and watercolor while championing "art for art's sake" against Victorian moralizing. He signed his work with a stylized butterfly carrying a stinger — delicate art, combative man — and titled his paintings like musical compositions: "arrangements," "harmonies," "nocturnes," chasing tonal harmony over narrative. Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, painted in 1871, became the thing he couldn't escape, endlessly reproduced and parodied as the icon of motherhood he never int…
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Shall the painter then.. ..decide upon painting? Shall he be the critic and sole authority?
The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of colour. The great musicians knew this.
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others.
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