詹姆斯·惠斯勒

詹姆斯·惠斯勒（James McNeill Whistler，1834年7月11日－1903年7月17日），著名印象派畫家，父親是美國工程師，全家曾居於聖彼得堡。惠斯勒曾入讀西點軍校，之後自選畫家為職業。

惠斯勒出生於麻薩諸塞州，21歲時懷著成為藝術家的雄心前往巴黎。他在倫敦建立起事業，從此未曾返回祖國。多年後，他成為19世紀美術史上最前衛的畫家之一。作為一名旅居者，惠斯勒沒有受到為道德而藝術的美國趨勢的影響。相反，他甚至追求唯美主義，即「為藝術而藝術」（art for art's sake），這種理論認為美感應當是藝術追求的唯一目標。

在1870年代事業達到高峰之際，惠斯勒關注藝術作品的展現。他為自己的畫設計畫框，有時甚至自己安排展覽。在為英國船王、他的主要贊助人弗雷德里克·雷蘭（Frederick Richards Leyland）的倫敦住宅設計餐廳裝飾時，他最終實現了塑造無所不包的整體美感的願望。那間現在被稱為孔雀廳的餐廳提高了惠斯勒作為唯美主義畫家的聲譽，顯示出他對美感的追求遠遠超越了畫框。

惠斯勒的畫作不太重視輪廓和素描，而注重彩色和音樂的效果，尤其喜歡在畫作命名上加上音樂的術語，例如《母親的畫像》又名《灰色與黑色的交響》。

## 作品(部分)

- 安排灰色：畫家肖像（1872年），惠勒斯自畫像
- 《母親的畫像》，是畫家惠斯勒的代表作之一
- 1864年作品《白衣之娘》
- 《金屏風》
- 《白衣少女》

## 延伸閱讀

- Bendix, D M (1995). Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler. Washington D.C. The Smithsonian Institution Press. .
- Curry, David Park (1984). James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art. New York: W. W. Norton and Freer Gallery of Art. .
- Denker, Eric (2003). Whistler and His Circle in Venice. London: Merrell Publishers. .
- Dorment, R and MacDonald, M. F. (1994). James McNeill Whistler. London: Tate Gallery..
- Glazer, Lee, et al. (2008). James McNeill Whistler in Context. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution..
- Glazer, Lee and Merrill, Linda eds. (2013). Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. .
- Grieve, Alastair (1984). Whistler's Venice. Yale University Press. .
- Heijbroek, J. E. and MacDonald, Margaret F. (1997). Whistler and Holland. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. .
- Levey, Mervyn (1975). Whistler Lithographs, Catalogue Raisonne. London: Jupiter Books.
- Lochnan, Katherine A.(1984). The Etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Yale University Press. .
- MacDonald Margaret F. (2001). Palaces in the Night: Whistler and Venice. University of California Press. .
- MacDonald, Margaret F. ed. (2003). Whistler's Mother, An American Icon. Aldershot: Lund Humphries. .
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Galassi, Susan Grace and Ribeiro, Aileen (2003). Whistler, Women, & Fashion. Frick Collection/Yale University. .
- MacDonald, Margaret F., and de Montfort, Patricia (2013). An American in London, Whistler and the Thames. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. .
- Merrill, Linda (1992). A Pot of Paint; Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press. .
- Merrill, Linda (1998). The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography. Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art / Yale University Press. .
- Merrill, Linda, and Ridley, Sarah (1993) The Princess and the Peacocks; or, The Story of the Peacock Room. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, in association with the Freer Gallery of Art. .
- Merrill, Linda, et al. (2003) After Whistler: The Artist and his Influence on American Painting. Yale University Press. .
- Munhall, Edgar (1995). Whistler and Montesquiou. Paris: Flammarion. .
- Petri, Grischka (2011). Arrangement in Business: The Art Markets and the Career of James McNeill Whistler. Hildesheim: G. Olms. .
- Robins, Anna Gruetzner (2007). A Fragile Modernism, Whistler and his Impressionist Followers. Yale University Press..
- Spencer, Robin (1991). Whistler: A Retrospective. New York: Wing Books. .
- Stubbs, Burns A. (1950). James McNeill Whistler: A Biographical Outline Illustrated from the Collections of the Freer Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Sutherland, Daniel E. and Toutziari, G. (2018). James McNeill Whistler. Yale University Press..
- Thompson, Jennifer A. (2017). " Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (cat. 1112)." In The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works, edited by Christopher D. M. Atkins. A Philadelphia Museum of Art free digital publication. .
- Twohig, Edward (2018). Print REbels: Haden – Palmer – Whistler and the origins of the RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmaker) by Edward Twohig RE. . Published by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in London, in May 2018.
- Young, MacDonald, Spencer, Miles (1980). The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler. Yale University Press..

## 外部參考

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- The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, Glasgow University Edited by M.F.MacDonald, P.de Montfort, N. Thorp.
- Catalogue raisonné of the etchings of James McNeill Whistler by M.F. MacDonald, G. Petri, M. Hausberg, J. Meacock.
- James McNeill Whistler: The Paintings, a Catalogue Raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2014 by M.F. MacDonald, G. Petri.
- James McNeill Whistler exhibition catalogs
- The Freer Gallery of Art which houses the premier collection of Whistler works including the Peacock Room.
- An account of the Whistler/Ruskin affair
- Whistler House Museum of Art official web site
- Works by James Abbott McNeill Whistler at University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Rudolf Wunderlich Collection of James McNeill Whistler Exhibition Catalogs at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
- The Whistler Society, London. Founded 2012.
- Jennifer A. Thompson, "Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (cat. 1112)" in The John G. Johnson Collection: A History and Selected Works, a Philadelphia Museum of Art free digital publication.

## 基本資料

- bgcolour：tan
- 日語原文：詹姆斯·惠斯勒、James Abbott McNeill Whistler
- 出生：James Abbott Whistler
- 出生日期：1834年7月10日
- 出生地：美國麻薩諸塞州洛厄爾
- 逝世日期：1903年7月17日
- 逝世地：英國英格蘭倫敦
- 國籍：美國
- 醫學專科：畫家
- 訓練地點：西點軍校
- 著作：母親的畫像
- 獲獎：1884, 榮譽學員, 德國巴伐利亞美術學會、1892, 法國榮譽軍團勳章