The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works (1910)
es and geometricalshapes that bewilders the Western mind thathas been content with comparatively fewformulae. The vista idea of representing a scene as ifviewed through the frame of a doorway, whichWhistler so frequently used in his etchings asin The Lime Burner and The Garden,is strictly Japanese.… … Tate Gallery, London NOCTURNE IN BLUE AND GOLD: OLD BATTERSEA BRIDGE. The Art of Omission 67 duct of life. If anybody ever plagiarized ideasit was Whistler. The T shape of the OldBattersea Bridge, in his nocturne of blue andgold, is almost an exact copy of a Hiroshigedesign. The same can be said of…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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