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Anton Refrigier – born in Moscow
Refrege was born in Moscow in the year of the first Russian revolution. This fact would seem irrelevant to the biography of an American artist: after all, his father took him to his homeland, to France, when he was still a teenager. In Paris, the boy’s artistic inclinations, inherited from his Russian ancestors, appeared: his maternal grandfather was a famous violinist, his grandmother was a ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater, and Anton himself became interested in the sculptor’s craft. Continue reading
figures are graceful
natural principle
painters from England
beautiful and majestic
naming the artistic
makes several
tense in mood
monuments of the city’s
Mexican graphic until
most picturesque places
could not recover
remarkable monument
masters saw in reality
introduction of an orange-red
linear perspective
especially outstanding
aspiring artist
most popular
master worked
inhuman tension.
distinguished by its mannerism
products painted
social activity gradually
uniquely individual
supposedly saved
joyful beauty
creative response
easel paintings
huge cycle of murals
outlines of buildings
henceforth become
ambassador to Greece
statue was created
thus emphasizing
drew themes from these albums
direct observations
studios were located
surpass in this respect
variety of color
constant companions
technique of oil painting
where every wave
hands he held
picture telling
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