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Camille Corot: “I write with my heart”
The large, half a century long, creative life of the French artist Camille Corot (1796–1875) was, as it were, subject to the change of seasons. In the winter months he worked in the Paris workshop, often visiting the opera and the conservatory. But the happiness of communicating with wildlife meant for the master incomparably more than visiting museums and concert halls. Every year with the onset of spring, he went on a journey through various regions of France to write sketches. Many of them have become pearls of plein-air painting. Continue reading
most picturesque places
constant companions
figures are graceful
uniquely individual
especially outstanding
masters saw in reality
painters from England
creative response
thus emphasizing
Mexican graphic until
makes several
remarkable monument
ambassador to Greece
statue was created
tense in mood
linear perspective
social activity gradually
studios were located
could not recover
aspiring artist
picture telling
distinguished by its mannerism
inhuman tension.
variety of color
products painted
monuments of the city’s
surpass in this respect
master worked
henceforth become
years of reaction
technique of oil painting
beautiful and majestic
most popular
natural principle
naming the artistic
direct observations
drew themes from these albums
where every wave
huge cycle of murals
easel paintings
supposedly saved
introduction of an orange-red
hands he held
outlines of buildings
joyful beauty




