 | 1927 - 666 pages
...be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy. — Letter to JOSHUA SPEED in 1855 t Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures,...these elements, that the result may be beautiful. — JAMES ABBOTT McNEiLL WHISTLER THE OWL AND THE BLUE JAY 'TpHis new group just mounted at the -I-... | |
 | Henry Ladd - 1928 - 112 pages
...own statement is disappointing for it avoids the essential issue. He says in the Ten O'clock Lecture, "But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group...these elements, that the result may be beautiful," and this, in the light of eighteenth century criticism, to say nothing of Ruskin's complex speculation... | |
 | Helen Gardner - 1926 - 708 pages
...expresses their significance in his Ten 0' Clock: . . . Nature indeed contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures, as the keyboard contains...beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmonics. . . . And when the evening mist clothes... | |
 | Rudolf Arnheim - 1966 - 386 pages
...some of the forms of nature, and copies of a few of her evanescent effects?" JA McN. Whistler: "Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures,...and choose, and group with science, these elements." ally consist of lines or brush strokes and is for the most part not twodimensional. It is the image... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 618 pages
...he has told us in a pamphlet on the subject : — ' Nature, indeed, contains the elements in colour and form of all pictures, as the keyboard contains...beautiful, as the musician gathers his notes, and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony.' And he goes on, in words which recall Corot's... | |
 | Leon Chai - 1990 - 296 pages
...O'Clock" lecture, where he defines the relation of art to nature: Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains...with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful—as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos... | |
 | Henri Dorra - 1994 - 420 pages
...McNeill Whistler, Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock (London: Chatto and Windus, 1888), 14-29. •* Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures,...to pick, and choose, and group with science, these 14. James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Blue and Silver: Cremome Lights, 1872. Oil on canvas, 125.7... | |
 | Eric Protter - 1997 - 322 pages
...curvings, as faces are seen in the fire — this dreamer apart, was the first artist. . . . Nature contains the elements, in color and form, of all pictures,...that the result may be beautiful — as the musician To say to the painter, that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player, that he may sit... | |
 | Linda Merrill, Robyn Asleson, Lee Glazer, Lacey Taylor Jordan, John Siewert, Marc Simpson, Sylvia Yount - 2003 - 280 pages
...Whistler's oeuvre, "his first attempt to carry out the principle afterward set down in his Ten O'Ciock, that 'the artist is born to pick and choose, and group with science, the elements contained in nature, that the result may be beautiful.'" — LM FIG 85 Installation view... | |
 | 1912 - 482 pages
..."Symphonies in White," and concerning the relation between music and painting he writes: "Nature indeed contains the elements in color and form of all pictures,...beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes and forms chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmonies." But, although Whistler did not believe... | |
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Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful — as the musician... 
