{"id":62139,"date":"2024-02-05T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=62139"},"modified":"2024-01-16T08:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:19:01","slug":"the-whistler-exhibit-at-the-smithsonian-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2024\/02\/05\/the-whistler-exhibit-at-the-smithsonian-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whistler Exhibit at the Smithsonian&#8211;Part Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The more time Whistler spent on the Continent, the more he found canals in Holland or Venice interesting as subject matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104931-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62142\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104931-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104429-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62157\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104429-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104508-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62160\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104508-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_103742-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62145\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_103742-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scenes with women in them, especially exotic eastern looking women got his attention as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_103329-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62148\" 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height=\"768\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not many painters did as many nocturnal paintings as did Whistler, but again this was in part because of his fascination with how light affected or determined the color of something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104530-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62178\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104530-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104408-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62181\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/01\/thumbnail_20240111_104408-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" 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