Word: whistlerian
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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...
When Whistler's Mother appeared on a U. S. stamp for Mother's Day 1934, artists shuddered to see an un-Whistlerian bunch of flowers interpolated in the composition. The Post Office avoided artistic blunders when, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Pan-American Union, it issued its best art stamp last spring. From Botticelli's famed Primavera (Spring) it selected a detail: the lightly clad, swirling Three Graces. But their identity was transmogrified. The Post Office said they were North, Central and South America. Designed by William A. Roach, lettered in 14th-Century style...
...those days Steichen spelled his first name "Eduard." He was a painter as well as a photographer and his photographs tended to be Whistlerian. Rembrandtesque or merely misty. Stieglitz, who never painted a stroke, was meanwhile doing a number of clear, cold outdoor pictures which have since become classic examples of great photography. In 1917 and 1918 "Eduard'' saw much more of France than he had ever seen before. He saw it from above, as chief of the photographic section of the U. S. Air Service. In aerial photography clarity is the first and last requisite. When...
...right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian etchings, but greatly admired the Marin water colors which were in reality shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a laborious technical background, an uncanny sense of color...