James McNeill Whistler.

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Title:

James McNeill Whistler.

ISBN:

9781840136593

Publication Information:

Hoo : Grange, 2005.

Physical Description:

80 pages : color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Abstract:

Demonstrates the four periods of the painters life from the research period in which the artist was influenced by the realism of Gustave Courbet and by Japanese art. Second he discovered his own orginality in the Nocturnes and the Cremorne Gardens series. The third period is dominated by the full-length portraits which brought him fame, and toward the end of his life the artist began painting landscapes and portraits in the classical tradition, strongly influenced by Velasquez.

Personal Subject:

Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903-Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Term:

Art, English -- 19th century.

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Summary

Whistler was the son of a railway engineer, born in Lowell, Massachusetts, but throughout his life he pretended to be a Southern gentleman. He was, in most imaginable ways, self-invented. Like West, he was irked by the low status America accorded its artists. His solution was not to attach himself to a court, as West did, but to depart for Paris and London and pretend to be a native aristocrat from an America he would never revisit. Perhaps his fixation on rank was impressed early: he was partly raised in Russia, where his father was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railway for Czar Nicholas I. A must-have book for art lovers and particularly fans of James McNeill Whistler.