2782 x 3700 px | 23,6 x 31,3 cm | 9,3 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
1875
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Dieses Bild ist ein gemeinfreies Bild. Dies bedeutet, dass entweder das Urheberrecht dafür abgelaufen ist oder der Inhaber des Bildes auf sein Urheberrecht verzichtet hat. Alamy berechnet Ihnen eine Gebühr für den Zugriff auf die hochauflösende Kopie des Bildes.
The firework rocket Whistler used in the background of "Battersea Bridge" becomes the focal point of "Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket". This work reaches to the very edge of abstraction, yet again maintains a representational basis. It depicts the Cremorne fireworks platform in London where shows were put on nightly. In the center, a bright explosion climaxes the display. Clouds of black and dark blue represent the smoke of the rockets. To the left, a large tree looms in the darkness, while three wispy figures admire the display from the foreground. The forceful composition evokes the actual trail of the firework explosion. Initially, the eye is attracted to the large plane of color near the bottom. The central explosion carries the eye of the viewer upward along with the shower of sparks to the large drops of paint at the top center of the canvas. Then, as anticlimax, the shower of sparks on the right float silently back into the dark of the night. When this work was exhibited in 1877, the famous art critic John Ruskin declared: "I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler immediately took up the challenge, issuing a lawsuit for libel - Mark Harden
