James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother
1871; Oil on canvas, 144.3 x 162.5 cm; Musée d'Orsay, Paris
William Merritt Chase
Still Life with Brass Bowl, 1903 (30 kb), Oil on canvas, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Art for art's sake is the idea that art is not concerned with storytelling, morality, religion, spiritual or intellectual enlightenment and such like, but only with its own aesthetic properties of colour, form and so on. This was the central belief of the fashionable late 19th-century Aesthetic movement, which had a paticular following from 'new money' collectors. Its two principal painters were notable aesthetes: Whistler (in Europe) and Chase (in the USA).
Cumming, Robert (2001). Art: A Field Guide (pg. 376). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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