Whistlerianadj.

Brit.

/wɪˈslɪərɪən/, U.S.

/(h)wɪˈslɪriən/

Etymology: < the name Whistler + -ian suffix.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the American painter and wit James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) or his work; after the style of Whistler.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others > specific artists

Whistlerian1891

Beardsleyan1895

Picassoesque1931

Picassian1940

Daliesque1941

Lowry1945

Picassoid1954

Thurberesque1954

Lowryish1961

Lowryesque1969

Warholian1972

Whistlerish1979

1891 E. Dowson Let. 2 Feb. (1967) 183 Oscar arrived late looking more like his Whistlerian name, in his voluminous dress clothes, than I have ever seen him.

1905 W. J. Locke Morals of Marcus Ordeyne ii. 19 A sort of Whistlerian nocturne of golden fog!

1927 G. K. Chesterton Robert Louis Stevenson iv. 92 We talk of some Whistlerian satire as a squib; but satire can only shine in the dark.

1956 D. Jones Let. 24 Aug. in R. Hague Dai Greatcoat (1980) iii. 170 I'm glad to have found one surviving little oil study from this almost Whistlerian world.

1960 Times 15 Nov. 16/5 This is all very well in an aesthetic and Whistlerian sense.

1979 S. Weintraub London Yankees vi. 180 His [sc. Sargent's] icily elegant and Whistlerian portrait..of Madame Judith Gautreau.

Derivatives

Whistlerism n.

Brit.

/ˈwɪslərɪz(ə)m/

U.S.

/ˈ(h)wɪsləˌrɪzəm/

the style or æsthetic theory of Whistler.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > other movements

chinoiserie1846

fantasticism1846

materialism1850

attitudinarianism1853

Vienna Secession1900

luminarism1903

Viennese Secession1903

luminism1905

Whistlerism1912

Omega Workshop1917

Suprematism1921

neoprimitivism1922

Rayonism1922

Bauhaus1923

linearism1935

precisionism1939

actionism1953

neo-expressionism1957

neo-Dadaism1960

neo-Dada1961

structurism1963

arte povera1969

process art1969

eco-art1970

body art1971

post-minimalism1971

Memphis1981

neo-conceptualism1986

Neo-Geo1986

Norman Rockwellism1988

Stuckism1999

1912 C. Rowley 50 Years Work without Wages 147 We discussed the prevailing fashions of Whistlerism, Impressionism, and..post-Impressionism.

1918 G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits (1932) 40 They are art for art's sake: the political variety of Whistlerism.

ˈWhistlerish adj.

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