Whistler's Mother

In the world's most famous museum, the lLouvre in Paris, hangs a painting by American celebrated artist, James McNeill Whistler. This painting's formal title is 'An Arrangement in Gray and Black', but it is better known by the simple name 'Whistler's Mother'.

Studies have been made to. Eexplain this portrait's, almost universal appeal, but what criterias can an art critic use to judyge a painting? Critics are not like scientists. They cannot set up a controlled experiment in which a number of stimulusi are shot into subject's and data collected on the subjects' reactions. No, an art critic relyies on inner emotion and sensitivity when analyzing a painting. Analysis of a painting is very personal.