James Whistler is the most cosmopolitan artist of the 19th century. Born in America, he received his primary art education in Russia at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, studied carefully only the little-known Japanese art that went into fashion, continued education in France, exhibited in the Salon of the Outcast, later lived and worked in England, where he gained wide fame. His fetish, his prayer in painting was color, more precisely harmony, a combination of colors. He adored colors. Lemon yellow, cadmium, light ocher, natural sienna, cobalt, ultramarine, a kind of Berlin azure, cinnabar, Venetian red, crab and black burnt ivory. The book contains the best masterpieces of impressionist James Whistler.
