From
a youth in Tsarist Russia, military training at West Point
and a bohemian lifestyle in 1850s Paris, Whistler went
on to embody the image of the cosmopolitan artist. His
friendships with Courbet, Fantin Latour, Rossetti, Manet,
Monet, Degas, Baudelaire, Wilde, and Mallarme mark him
as a crucial player in the larger art movements of the
nineteenth century and as a pivotal figure between the
British and French art scenes.
As an impressionist, Whistler never adopted the broken
strokes and the sunlit effects developed by his former
French associates. He worked instead more and more in
a muted palette of grays and blacks, softly blended, painting
the misty tonalities of evening or gray days, sometimes
flecked or splashed with red or golden lights, with strong
reference to Japanese prints or Oriental ink-wash drawings
with there simplification and their subtle, colorless
gradations.
|
All
images are for sale.
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
Page1
|
| Click
on BUY to purchase the posters, or ENLARGE
it to help you make up your mind. |
|
|
