Stay updated with breaking news from Seymour haden. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
100 years have passed since an evening in london when a curious audience gathered to hear a lecture by James Mcneill whistler. [clock ticking] he began by saying that the artist stands in no relation to the moment at which he occurs. He is no more a product of his time than is a scientific truth newly asserted. The assertion requires man to make it but the truth itself exists independently. [clock strikes] James Mcneill whistler arrived in paris on november 3, 1855 resolved to be an artist having left america never to return. He was 21. His mother hoped he would follow a career at west point, as his father and grandfather had before him but his temperament was not suited to the discipline of army life. He failed out of west point. In paris whistler began his studies at the academy of charles gleyre, who had a reputation for providing solid groundwork in drawing and painting yet ....
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers | Artist Biographies artbiogs.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artbiogs.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pictures for all predilections in forthcoming British and Continental Pictures and Prints auction artdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.