. The Whistler book; a monograph of the life and positin in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works . nd space composition. It is a most formi-dable object lesson to any portraitist. Noticehow purely simple and well balanced the com-position of Carlyle is, how all the detailsof dress have been eliminated, how the outlinehas been accentuated against the background,how naturally the figure is seated, and howwell it has been placed in space. There is anatmosphere around the figure. One feels thatthe person is seated in a room. The same can be said
. The Whistler book; a monograph of the life and positin in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works . nd space composition. It is a most formi-dable object lesson to any portraitist. Noticehow purely simple and well balanced the com-position of Carlyle is, how all the detailsof dress have been eliminated, how the outlinehas been accentuated against the background,how naturally the figure is seated, and howwell it has been placed in space. There is anatmosphere around the figure. One feels thatthe person is seated in a room. The same can be said of the composition inthe portrait of The Artists Mother, at theLuxembourg Gallery, Paris. It was first ex-hibited at the Royal Academy in London. Inthe season of 1882 it appeared in America, andthen was shown at the Paris Salon in was also seen in INIunich, and was finallypurchased by the French Government in simple pose, the delicate way of handlingdetail in the lace cap and the hands, the mas-terly space arrangement, produced largely bythe rectangular curtain and the silhouette of,the figure, the fine sense of values, and the. City Art Gallery, Glasgow ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND GRAY. THOMAS CARLYLE. Visions and Identifications 145 clever way in which he utilizes a few frames tobreak the monotony of the background all havebeen commented upon a hundred times. Nomodern painting has been more talked aboutand more frequently imitated than this one,but none of the adaptations has reached orsurpassed its pathos and tender depth of ex-pression. Technically it is perfect. It is not the technique, however, which prin-cipally interests us in the picture. Just as inhis Sarasate, Whistler attempted in his Mother to give us the whole atmospherethat surrounds a personality. Old Mrs. Whis-tler was a stern Presbyterian and her religiousviews must have been trying to her son. Yet Jimmy, though he used to give a queersmile when he mentioned them, never in anyway complained of th
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