 | Margaret F. MacDonald - 2001 - 172 Seiten
...London. In 1 885, in his famous 'Ten O'clock' Lecture, he used Venice as a symbol of this transformation: And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone [...]' Whistler's pastels of 'palaces in the night' are indeed exquisite, but they were his last. On... | |
 | Dario Gamboni - 2002 - 312 Seiten
...McNeill Whistler, Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights. 1 872, oil on canvas. 50.2 x 74.3 cm. heavens, and fairy-land is before us - then the wayfarer...her exquisite song to the artist alone, her son and master - her son in that he loves her, her master in that he knows her.'1 ' At the particular time... | |
 | Susan Stewart - 2005 - 316 Seiten
...Diirer's meditation on nocturnal creativity. In Whistler's "Ten O'clock Lecture" of 1885, he wrote, "And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone." 16 By now the figure of Melancholy awake in his den or cell in the night and contemplating mysteries... | |
 | American Institute of Architects. Committee on Education - 1923 - 652 Seiten
...fairy-land is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home ; the working man and the cultured o ic, the wise man and the one of pleasure, cease to understand,...tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone." 1 As a painter or poet one may see with the eyes of Whistler and it is the privilege of planners of... | |
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And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens,... 
