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James Abbot McNeil Whistler. Symphony in White No. 7: The White Girl. 1860
-was his mistress
-shock viewers, dead animal, white on white
-emphasized abstract |
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James Whistler. Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother. 1870
-cared more about arrangement than subject
-no moral meaning
-represents to other people Puritan mother, prim proper
-not a study of human character |
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Whistler. Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge. 1870
-really influenced by japanisma
-radical change from past
-simplication of form
-he was a major figure no one else like him |
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James Whistler. Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. 1870
-decoratively arranged surfaces
-all musically related |
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing. Summer. c.1890
-suggestion of trees, landscape
-critics felt it was threatening to masculinity
-everyday life moment
-tried to make rise of city not so stiffling |
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Mary Cassatt. Mother and Child. c. 1900
-lived in France and learns from France style
-American Impressionism is viewed as vapid
-japanisma influences
-flattening, oblique angle
- paints mostly women because women werent allowed to walk around outside by themselves |
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Mary Cassatt. The Bath. 1890
-patterning, flatten, oblique, japanisma |
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John Henry Twachtman. Argue La Bataille. 1890
-Part of The Ten
-knew Hudson River School
-moved from Europe to America and back and forth
-Atmosphere perspective, gets hazier farther back
-critics didnt like it
-americans were adverse to change, already too much going on |
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Childe Hassam. Union Square in Spring. 1895
-influenced by japanisma
-sense of growing city, NY
-reassurance, not dangerous
-class relations, influz of foreigners
-countered idea with beautiful streets |
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Childe Hassam. Allies Day, May 1917. 1917
-comes from flag series
-WWI patriotism
-parade and he had easle on balcony
-patriotic statement of war effort but also decorative with a rosy spirit |
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