Word: whistlerisms
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...CRIMSON is just as bored as everyone else with the apparent triteness of discussions involving teaching and scholarship. Yet a search for different words, under which to disguise this controversy, is just as difficult as locating Whistler's father. In considering this problem as it arises in the Freshman year, one is forced to use these words not once but a dozen times...
Ever since collectors began noticing how the oil paintings of James Abbott McNeill Whistler have cracked, faded and fallen to pieces in 30 years there has been an ever-increasing interest among serious painters in the chemistry of their craft. Before the Brothers van Eyck popularized the use of oils in the 15th Century, almost all painting was either in fresco (pure pigment mixed with water and applied to wet plaster) or in tempera (ground pigments mixed with beaten egg and water and applied either to wood or canvas that is prepared with a plaster-like ground). Oil painting...
...information presented in an easily digestible form. Thus in the space at his disposal Mr. Cahill, for example, summarizes American achievement in painting and sculpture more succinctly than it has ever been summarized before (within the memory, at any rate of this reviewer). If he is too severe with Whistler, or too lenient and even worshipful to Winslow Homer, Mr. Cahill at least gives good reasons for his preferonech, and he never lets the historical and nocini nilliett get out of night; he is obviously a nationalist who believes in an indigenous American art, not subservient to European tradition...
...silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed the buttons that still grace the coatees of West Point Cadets. Most of the innumerable Nazi uniforms sprang from the fertile brain of Hermann Wilhelm Goring. Lieut-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- Powell...
...Whistler's Mamma...