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Completed in 1871, Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea is a painting by James McNeill Whistler. It is the earliest of the London Nocturnes and was conceived on the same August evening as Variations in Violet and Green. [1] The two paintings were exhibited together at the Dudley Gallery.
Archip Kuindshi, Moonlit Night on the Dnieper 1882 James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket, 1874 [1] [2] The depiction of night in paintings is common in Western art. Paintings that feature a night scene as the theme may be religious or history paintings, genre scenes, portraits, landscapes, or other ...
James Abbott McNeill Whistler RBA (/ ˈ w ɪ s l ər /; July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
Whistler's Nocturne series, of which this painting was a part, achieved notoriety in 1877, when influential critic John Ruskin visited an exhibition of the series at the Grosvenor Gallery. He wrote of the exhibition that Whistler was "asking two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face."
Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket is a c. 1875 painting by James McNeill Whistler held in the Detroit Institute of Arts.The painting exemplified the art for art's sake movement – a concept formulated by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire.
The title, Nocturnes, refers not to the musical tradition of the same name but to the "nocturne" paintings of Whistler, who in turn had borrowed the term from music. [27]: 133 Debussy's description of the Sirens movement reminded his biographer Léon Vallas of Whistler's "Harmonies in blue and silver". Vallas noted that Whistler "was a ...
James Ellis took over the license in January 1845. [6] The twelve-acre site was then developed by James Ellis into a proprietary place of entertainment and spectacle, being popular as such from 1845 to 1877. The Cremorne Gardens occupied a large site running between the Thames and the King's Road. Opened in 1845, they were noisy and colourful ...
Pages in category "Paintings by James McNeill Whistler" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea ...