Nocturnes
Oct 7th, 2009 |
Nocturnes
The best-loved of Whistler’s “moonlights,” as he called them, is the hauntingly lit “Nocturne” that gives us Battersea Bridge as a long London day fades to black. Critics seem to agree that Whistler’s main influence at that time was the Japanese woodblock master Hiroshige, whose marvelous work, along with other Japanese aesthetic achievements, was just [...]
