James Abbott Mcneill Whisler Essay

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an artist. He was born in America. Whistler was more over to British than anything else, or American. The time he was born in was during the American Gilded Age. He strongly disliked sentimentality and moral allusion, the sadness or overwhelming of power in painting, and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He had a brother named William Mcneill Whistler. Born in July 11 1834, Lowell, MA. Died on July 17 1903, London, United Kingdom. Parents were George Washington Whistler, Anna McNeill Whistler. Times he was born in, Aestheticism, Modern art, Tonalism, Grand manner. His famous signature for the paintings he did was a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol
His famous mother’s painting was sold and ended up in Musee de Luxembourg in Paris. His reputation as an innovator declined in the 1890s. In his lifetime he had finished over fifty etchings, several nocturnes, some watercolor, and over one-hundred pastels. Demonstrating the moods of Venice and its fine architectural details. He later on spread his ‘methods’ or paintings and influence into America. His mother, Anna, died in January. After he publicly had her maiden name Mcneill as a maiden name. So that’s why he has four names instead of three. On June 1st 1886 he was elected president. A year after that he presented to the Queen Victoria, she was so amazed by his talent. At the annual meeting on June 4th, he was defeated for reelection by a vote 18-19. He was successful in purging Maud for his eccentricities and non-English background. He married a woman named Beatrice Godwin. Whistler became close to Beatrice. He painted a portrait titled Harmony in Red: Lamplight. In his final seven years of life left, he did some minimalist seascapes in watercolor and a final self portrait in oil. Also he founded an art school in 1898, but his poor health and infrequent appearances led to its closure in