FAH287H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Peacock Room, Impressionism, Epicenter
22 Oct 2018
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Harmony in grey and green: miss cicely alexander, whistler, 1672-74. Nocturne: blue and silver cremorne lights, whistler, year. Harmony in blue and gold: the peacock room, whistler, 1877. Blue and white porcelain is a motif. Whistler kept painting but did not get paid (went bankrupt) Left the gold scab: eruption in filthy lucre for him to find. Inspired by japanese art (from an 1851 art exhibition) Rejects the excess of english interior design. Took 10 years for him to figure out how to print it himself. The tulips are interwoven in the willow. Woven-ness suggests different types of craft practises. Modern art must be committed to modernity . Impressionists did not have much luck in regards to the salon. Had to find other ways to exhibit their work. Critic dubbed the impressionists based on this painting. Meant to be derogatory (half-assed) but the name stuck. Translated what they saw into their own visual representations.
