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)
ut the application of focus. The lens ofthe camera taught the painter the importanceof a single object in space to realize that allsubjects cannot be seen with equal clearness,and that it is necessary to concentrate the pointof interest according to the visual abilities ofthe eye. There is no lens,… … CA-C.SS.Y, THE SILENT CANAL (ETCHING), In Quest of Line Expression 165 rapher can, at will, fix either the house, thetree or the pool of water, but whatever one ofthese three objects it will be, the other twoobjects will appear less distinct. The human eye could have told the painterthe same story,…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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