deep decline in those years.
James Whistler: “I am an artist and“ born ”in Petersburg”
James Whistler, an Anglo-American artist, was born July 11, 1834 in Lowell, the industrial city of the United States. Staying in Russia largely affected the formation of his talent. Whistler arrived in St. Petersburg as a teenager in the fall of 1843, when his father, a railway engineer, was invited by the tsarist government to build a railway that was supposed to connect the two capitals.
The years of childhood and adolescence, spent by the future artist in Russia, are the most cloudless and bright years in his full shocks of life. Continue reading
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monuments of the city’s
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joyful beauty
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most popular
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most picturesque places
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naming the artistic
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figures are graceful
tense in mood
linear perspective
technique of oil painting
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creative response
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natural principle
aspiring artist
painters from England
drew themes from these albums
variety of color
inhuman tension.
