James+Whistler+Abbot+McNeil



__Art History Project__ __Computer Graphics and Animation__  B y M a r  g a r  e t


 * My artists name was James Whistler Abbot McNeil


 * He was born July 10, 1834


 * The Art period Whistler generally used was Realism. This was the art period of visual art and literature to generally attempt to depict or portray everyday objects and ideas in his paintings. Whistler used a lot of realism in his paintings.


 * The Painting, "At the Piano", by Whistler, was created in 1858.


 * Whistler was born in the United States and he traveled throughout the U.S and Europe most of his life.


 * His friend Fantin-Latour was the inspiration for the painting, “At The Piano”.


 * Whistler’s interest in drawing began when he was 4. His artistic interests greatly increased during his years in Russia, and he enrolled in a drawing course at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg in 1845.


 * I chose this art piece for the project because the colors and actions in the painting really caught my eye. The three main colors used in the piece were pink, black and a brownish red color, these colors really looked appealing to me. Also aside from the color pallet I was taken in by the actions that the two characters were portraying in the painting. The girl in the pink dress is standing elegantly while the older women plays the piano. I was immediately taken by the elegance of the piano and the beauty of the girl and her dress, this is why I chose to duplicate the girls dress and put myself in it. It didn't take many steps to blend myself into the painting, first I took myself from another picture into the psd by using the magnetic lasso, then I dragged a copy of the girls dress into the picture and fixed my bodies size to fit into the dress. After I was in the painting I needed to adjust my skin tone to make it look more like it was painted in rather than cut in by using the edit-transform tool. At that point I had been done with the project and just had to make some small final adjustments with the painting. These steps were simple and helped me learn more techniques for editing on Photoshop.

 __Other Paintings by Whistler:__
"Harmony In Grey and Green" -Miss Cicely Alexander, made in 1872, located in the Tate Gallery, London England.



Symphony In White, No. 1: "The White Girl", made in 1862, located in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Symphony In White, No. 2: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">"The Little White Girl", made in 1864, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">located in the Tate Gallery, London England.

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