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