Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | 1875 Size:12"x16" Beneath the revelry lies a

Beneath the revelry lies a sharp satire of human folly

Landseer’s dark humor and moral commentary make this an unsettling yet powerful work

Beneath a pale moon

with stars dotting the heavens

Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | 1875 Size:12"x16" Beneath the revelry lies aNocturne in Black and Gold 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 Thophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire. First shown at the Grosvenor Gallery in London in 1877, it is one of two works (the other being Nocturne in Black and Gold The Firewheel) inspired by the Cremorne Gardens, a