James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875, oil on panel. T
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875, oil on panel. The famous art critic and champion of the pre raphaelite movement once famously said about this painting, that it was like ‘flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face’. Consequentially they faced a libel case which Whistler won after claiming that Ruskin had damaged his reputation. This painting has risen above this important defining moment in art history to become a masterpiece in its own right. It shows immense musicality and expressiveness capturing the spontaneity of the nightly firework display over Cremore Gardens. -- source link
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