WITHIN 7 From the outset his practise was to elimi- of adulation and over-praise. He suc- nate, to simplify. He began with rich, ceeded in doing so only because his was almost robust qualities; he loved form, the life of the spirit, because he possessed color, and contour, yet one by one he re- the… … by little his art became fastidious and sounds ecstatic; you may doubtless find evanescent, the merest phantom sugges- it difficult to associate such ideas with tion of fact. It passed through a con- the Whistler of convention, the noncha- tinual process of etherealization. lant Whistler whose…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
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