12
Feb
2023
Artist Paint And Painting Supplies
Seurat abjured the capture-the-moment method of Manet, Monet and Degas, going as an alternative for the sense of timeless permanence present in Greek sculpture. And that’s exactly what you get in this frieze-like processional of figures whose stillness is in maintaining with Seurat’s goal of creating a classical landscape in modern form. Whistler’s Mother, or Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, as it’s actually titled, speaks to the artist’s ambition to pursue art for art’s sake. James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted the work in his London studio in 1871, and in it, the formality of portraiture becomes an essay in type.
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