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
surpass in this respect
Mexican graphic until
creative response
makes several
where every wave
years of reaction
easel paintings
outlines of buildings
joyful beauty
natural principle
ambassador to Greece
master worked
drew themes from these albums
hands he held
aspiring artist
picture telling
linear perspective
beautiful and majestic
variety of color
thus emphasizing
statue was created
products painted
huge cycle of murals
tense in mood
constant companions
social activity gradually
direct observations
studios were located
most popular
especially outstanding
uniquely individual
most picturesque places
figures are graceful
remarkable monument
henceforth become
naming the artistic
distinguished by its mannerism
painters from England
masters saw in reality
supposedly saved
monuments of the city’s
technique of oil painting
inhuman tension.
introduction of an orange-red
could not recover