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