Nocturne (Art)
Nocturne refers to a piece of art that has night as its time frame. Whistler was the artist who first used the word 'nocturne'; borrowing the term from the composer Chopin.
nocturne
noise - In digital imaging, data or unidentifiable marks picked up in the course of scanning or data transfer that do not correspond to the original.
Also see chaos.
NOCTURNE - A picture of a night scene
NON-LINEAR - A composition in which mass is the dominant element in defining form (as opposed to line).
Nocturne for piano "Homage to John Field" Op. 33
Tres DesPeaux
Pablo Picasso
Barber ...
Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge
1872
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge (Detail) ...
This nocturne’s radiance is created by multiple layers of translucent and opaque paint applied with consummate technical skill.
The three Nocturnes (1899), include characteristic studies in veiled harmony and texture as demonstrated in Nuages; exuberance in Fêtes; and whole-tones in Sirènes.
The visionary landscape, a motive largely dependent on the ambiguity of the nocturne, found its advocates in Albert Pinkham Ryder and Ralph Blakelock. Eleanor Holding a Shell, 1902, by Frank W.
Ault's neighbor Henry Mattson was sharing ideas with him on painting nocturnes, considered a Romantic tradition and a technical challenge for landscape painters.
A form of Luminism underlies Whistler's 'Nocturnes'.
Lyrical abstraction
term coined by the French painter George's Mathieu in 1947 to describe the more decorative style of L'Art Informel and abstract expressionism.
 See also: Painting, Roman, Movement, Portrait, Impression
  
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