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)
into our soul than the coldcorrectness of older forms and emblems. It was Whistler who pointed out that a largepicture is a contradiction, that a picture likeRaphaels Transfiguration or Veroneses Marriage of Cana are merely combinationsof smaller pictures, drearily linked together bystretches of… … THE FIDDLER (ETCHING), The Story of the Beautiful 247 plexity. The modern mind demands a con-centrated vision. Painting must appeal againdirectly to our finer sensibilities, speak to uswithout interference of moral or literary con-siderations. It was Whistler who taught that paintingwas a science…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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