The Falling Rocket is a painting of c.1875 by James Abbott McNeill Whistler that exemplified the Art for art's sake movement--a concept formulated by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire.
The Falling Rocket is a c.1875 painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler held in the Detroit Institute of Arts. The painting exemplified the Art for art's sake movement--a concept formulated by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire.