\paperw4500 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 American painter. \par
In Paris from 1855, he frequented Realist circles but his enthusiasm for Japanese prints and the painting of V
elßzquez brought him closer to the work of the young Impressionists. In 1859 he moved to London, where he spent much of his life and soon came to be regarded as the doyen of British Impressionism (\i Nocturne in Blue and Gold\i0 , ca. 1877, Detroit, Inst
itute of Arts). The objective of WhistlerÆs research was the development of a style of painting without a story to tell, a pure aesthetic experience above and beyond the values of representation, which brought him into comparison with the Symbolist cultu
re of the 1880s and 1890s û contemporaries drew parallels between his nocturnes and symphonies and the music of Wagner.\par
