Sentences with phrase «bold palette agitated»

When it was first exhibited in the 1880s, Wheeler's pensive look captivated some viewers, while the painting's bold palette agitated others.5 Again, Chase gestured to the Old Masters, and Hals in particular, but he also nodded to his contemporary James McNeill Whistler's famous portrait of the artist's mother (1871; Musée d'Orsay).