James McNeill WhistlerG. Bell, 1904 - 72 Seiten |
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A. C. Swinburne admirably America ARTHUR BELL artist Balcony Battersea Bridge beautiful BELL AND SONS Bell's Miniature Series BLACK LION WHARF butterfly C. L. Freer celebrated character characteristic Charles Méryon charm Chelsea colour composition critic decorative delightful little Edmund Davis etchings ethereal excellent exhibited expression exquisite famous Fur Jacket G. C. WILLIAMSON genius GEORGE BELL George McCulloch Glasgow Golden Screen Goupil Gallery Grosvenor Gallery harmony illustrations interpretation JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER Lady Archibald Campbell Lady Meux later Leyland Little Cardinal Little Rose little volumes Little White Girl Luxembourg Lyme Regis Master Smith masterpieces Miss Alexander Miss Rosa Corder modern Nocturnes Paris Peacock Room peculiar PIANO picture Porcelaine Portrait of Miss PORTRAIT OF THOMAS Princesse du Pays Private Possession remarkable Rembrandt Ruskin Sarasate Series of Musicians Series of Painters Sir Seymour Haden Symphony in White THAMES IN ICE Théodore Duret Thomas Carlyle tion whilst WHISTLER'S MOTHER
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Seite 26 - Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works "arrangements
Seite 17 - For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Seite 34 - Industry in Art is a necessity — not a virtue — and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality ; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
Seite 26 - 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.
Seite 34 - A PICTURE is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.