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)
ike representation, whichseems to actually vibrate; but at somethingevasive and unfathomable that we find difficultto express in words. We experience somethingsimilar when we contemplate Whistlers Mother or some portraits of modernmasters like Blanche, Lavery, enigmaticKhnopff, or the grey men and… … Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum, New York SIR HENRY IRVING AS PHILIP II. On Light and Tone Problems 91 same mysterious mood in their paintings.They seem to quiver with something that isessentially modern, and cannot emanate alonefrom the charm of momentary expressionwhich is one of their main…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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