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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
painters from England
surpass in this respect
drew themes from these albums
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hands he held
aspiring artist
monuments of the city’s
especially outstanding
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joyful beauty
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picture telling
could not recover
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linear perspective
thus emphasizing
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master worked
ambassador to Greece
huge cycle of murals
creative response
naming the artistic
variety of color
social activity gradually
constant companions
technique of oil painting
makes several
henceforth become
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studios were located
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most picturesque places
introduction of an orange-red
statue was created
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uniquely individual
masters saw in reality
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outlines of buildings
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where every wave
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