Word: whistlerian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excursions to Dieppe and Venice, he corseted the limp, nebulous, Whistlerian technique with steel-ribbed draftsmanship and an exact sense of time & place. He told his pupils: "You must be able to walk about in a picture. It should give you the sensation of something exciting happening, taking place in a box as it were, only the front of the box has been taken away so that you may look inside...