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Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood; Wayne McGregor on Carmen Herrera; Whistler’s Mother

The Week in Art

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The Art of Whisperer's Mother

We are using one of the copies of black lion warff that's in the Philadelphia Museum of Art collection which is right next to the painting. That then helps to sort of draw out some of the details that we see in whistlers work. He uses a great deal of brush work even brevura brush work interpicting her face and a little bit of the lace around her cuffs. Then that kimono the silk has just wonderful dabs of paint with yellow and white in there.

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