1868 (ca.), James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in Blue and Pink -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: Strokes of green, blue, and white and dashes of pink echo across this composition of four women on a windswept beach. Whistler described the effect to his friend, artist Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), as "the same colouring reappearing continually here and there like the same thread in an embroidery—and so on with the others-more or less according to their importance—the whole forming in this way an harmonious pattern—Look how the Japanese understand this!—They never search for contrast, but on the contrary for repetition."
1868 (ca.), James McNeill Whistler, Symphony in Blue and Pink -- National Museum of Asian Art (Washington)
From the museum label: Strokes of green, blue, and white and dashes of pink echo across this composition of four women on a windswept beach. Whistler described the effect to his friend, artist Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), as "the same colouring reappearing continually here and there like the same thread in an embroidery—and so on with the others-more or less according to their importance—the whole forming in this way an harmonious pattern—Look how the Japanese understand this!—They never search for contrast, but on the contrary for repetition."