James McNeill Whistler - Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872
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Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872
50x76cm oil/canvas
Art Institute of Chicago
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From Art Institute of Chicago:
“Art should be independent of all clap-trap—should stand alone and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear,” said the iconoclastic painter James McNeill Whistler. Born in the United States, Whistler spent most of his adult life in Paris and London. To emphasize that his paintings have no narrative overtones—that instead they are aesthetic arrangements of color and shape on flat surfaces—he gave them titles derived from music, such as arrangements, symphonies, and nocturnes. One of his first such paintings, Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water depicts a hazy, moonlit night on an inlet of the English Channel, southwest of London.
— Entry, Essential Guide, 2013, p. 36