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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
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tense in mood
beautiful and majestic
easel paintings
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monuments of the city’s
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technique of oil painting
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years of reaction
naming the artistic
joyful beauty
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variety of color
most picturesque places
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linear perspective
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studios were located
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painters from England
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surpass in this respect