ホイスラーと伝統

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Whistler insisted on it that art had been always the same, and was eternal. He had a deep conviction that art was unchageable. Impressionist Renoir thought likewise, and said that painting was not chageableIt is true that we can take Whistler to be a progressive artist.But he used to say, "Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress." (Mr. Whistler's ten O'clok) For Europeans Western art originated the classical period. Both Whistler and Renoir had been going to follow Ingres, great of classicism. And in their last years they were panting a lot of female nudes or venuses. Of cource nude is the western traditional subject. In twentieth century, Dadaist Marcel Duchamp had also produced works of nude or erotical theme again and again throughout his life. It may safely be said that Duchamp as well as Whistler was concerned with a matter of tradition or Western art as their own identity. If an artist would desire a new art, he had to put a question to art-itself and maintain his own identity, which is the foundation of his art. That foundation is, in other word, the tradition which has been unchageablely succeeded.
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