Studio: international art (33.1905)

A Russian Painter

"nuit du nord" by W. poorwit

loves to paint nature, not
grand landscapes composed
and thought out in a
studio: he loves nature
in all her moods, and sees
and feels her poetry. For
him there is beauty every-
where : in the seemingly
uninteresting peasant's
cottage of his native Kur-
land, in the solitary tree
growing on the hillside, in
the pale moonlight of a
winter landscape. He also
loves the soft mists, the
equally soft browns and
deep greens of the autumn ;
above all, he loves that
moment in early spring
when the whole countiy
looks apoem of meltingsnow
and dark, rushing water. "l'automne dore" ky w. pourwit

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