Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also visible as a single large image on Wikimedia Commons (5mb).
Original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I stop to be stunned by this beautiful painting every time I visit the museum. I never tire of it and I missed it when it was on loan.
Today is Whistler’s birthday.
Linda Merrill explains ‘The-Lange-Lijzen-of-the-Six-Marks’-painting by James Whistler in The Burlington Magazine Volume 136 #1095 (Oct. 1994)on Pages 683-690. So interesting to know the details behind the scene, whilst the Dutch LangeLijs-collectors in Holland go hogwild.
https://langelijs.wordpress.com/
When I copied Whistler’s daguerreotype portrait as a youngster in graphite on June the 17th, little did I know that Richard Canfield already apprised the artist in the catalogue (OILS, WATERCOLORS, PASTELS & DRAWINGS)of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo NY, 1911, as follows:
“Mr WHISTLER was a distinguished figure in the World’s Art. There has been no greater artistic personality for many a day. Subtle in feeling and artistic vision, exquisite in his power of discriminating selection and delicacy in his technique; with a rare sense of color and its harmonious combinations, no man has been more discussed, more admired, or more appreciated than Mr. Whistler.”
A more typical variation on the artist-depicting-the-artist is Surrealisme.
There is also the self-conscious action of the abstract calligrapher, e.g. works varying from Mondrian to Miro and Kandinsky, as well as my own work at the following gallery:
Nathan,
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Actually, I’m looking for naturalized traffic. But I see what you mean.
There’s also an excellent site at http://www.artchive.com that I don’t own that all artists should visit.
Basically, although I’m not yet very popular, I consider myself to be on the cusp of the avant-garde. Hyper-Cubism is in my mind, the next iteration of Cubism, and the first to do something truly innovative and ‘beyond photography’.
I have given away over 250 artworks in a New Haven cafe, in hopes of acquiring artistic fame. My total production has been over 1000 works, many of remarkable quality. However, web sales have been slow. It is my hope that collectors learn to re-sell their work, and thus enhance the value of the existing portfolio, self-owned or otherwise.
It is interesting. I have one work that resembles a Picasso, and one work that resembles a Pollock. But otherwise, my work is very unique. People have remarked on how there is variation in almost every piece—no one of them looks alike to another. Pretty good for someone who also does other things—!
I use blogs like this one because there are so few genuine forums for discussing artistic progress. The odds of being found for a personal website without some very appropriate keywords, or mention in more than one major magazine is pretty unlikely.
So, I’m very grateful that I have this opportunity to spread the news about a very deserving art movement: Hyper-Cubism.
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Thank you for your link !
Gr. Irene
