James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
Background
- Born in
- Lowell
- Educated at
- Imperial Academy of Arts
- Awards
- 🏆 Officer of the Legion of Honour
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"It is for the artist.. ..in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features."
"Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation."
"If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this: in …"
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Timeline
1834
Born
Birth1903
Died
Death
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