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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
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James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was Britain based, American Painter. He worked in oil, watercolour, pastels and extensively practised printmaking. Whistler produced hundreds of etchings, lithographs, and dry-points. Lithographs.
Whistler followed two principles through his career, 1 Line is more important than colour and 2 Black is the fundamental colour for the tonal harmony. He sketched and painted back alleys, canals, entrance ways, and many other rarely perceived points of views. In simple black-white presentations without the use of colour, he had the craft of feeling in live atmosphere. In 1859, he lodged near the Thames, London in the docklands south of Tower Bridge and began to make etchings of the river surroundings. He rendered the distant warehouses in sharp details, but treated the closer forms broadly.
Whistler avoided sentimentality and
symbolism. He was a leader in the Aesthetic
Movement, promoting, writing, and lecturing
on it. He professed for simpler compositions
but his sketches show his way of capturing the
scene directly in a well-composed manner.
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