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