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)
calm we feelin the presence of our own aging mother. And 146 The Whistler Book with this large and mighty feeling, in which alldiscords of mannerisms are dissolved, and, bythe tonic values of two ordinary dull colours,he succeeded in writing an epic, a symphonydomestica, of superb breadth and… … CHAPTER VIII IN QUEST OF LINE EXPRESSION Artist, thou art king! Art is the trueempire! When thy hand has drawn a perfectline, the cherubims themselves descend to de-light themselves in it as in a mirror, wroteMerodack Peladan, in his preface to the Cat-alogue of the Salon de la Rose-Croix (1892).He…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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