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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beautiful and majestic
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tense in mood
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naming the artistic
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creative response
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joyful beauty
henceforth become
technique of oil painting
variety of color
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surpass in this respect
most picturesque places
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thus emphasizing
drew themes from these albums
ambassador to Greece
studios were located
masters saw in reality
inhuman tension.
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distinguished by its mannerism
social activity gradually
monuments of the city’s
master worked
hands he held
huge cycle of murals