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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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monuments of the city’s
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beautiful and majestic
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constant companions
naming the artistic
could not recover
drew themes from these albums
most picturesque places
most popular
technique of oil painting
surpass in this respect
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tense in mood
hands he held
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inhuman tension.
painters from England
easel paintings
joyful beauty
natural principle
uniquely individual
figures are graceful
linear perspective
introduction of an orange-red
variety of color
distinguished by its mannerism
outlines of buildings
social activity gradually
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years of reaction
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products painted
creative response
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