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Whistler
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color”.
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John La Farge
Tonalism owes much of its earliest principles to an underrated (because hard to classify) nineteenth-century American artist, John La Farge.