James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
1875
Gallery · Leonardo, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Botticelli
American painter and printmaker working in London and Paris, a forerunner of Aestheticism and of the slogan "art for art's sake". He gave his paintings musical titles - nocturnes, symphonies, arrangements - stressing the primacy of mood and colour harmony over subject.
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