Repin, Ilya
REPIN, ILYA (–), Russian realist painter.
Ilya Yefimovich Repin was Russia's foremost realist painter and a pivotal figure in winning Russian realism a long-lasting recognition as the national school of art. Repin was born in , before the emancipation of the serfs, into a peasant family in the village of Chuguyev, near Kharkov (now Ukraine). In , after receiving some training from itinerant icon painters, he set out for St. Petersburg to attend the Imperial Academy of Arts, graduating in as a recipient of the academy's Major Gold Medal. The same year the young artist gained public attention with a canvas on a nonacademic topic, Barge Haulers on the Volga. At the time, this depiction of eleven toiling peasants—never before presented in such monumental proportions and with such serious intent—struck an original chord and a significant note. The liberal, populist-minded intelligentsia hailed the painting as an inspiring image that demonstrated the latent, renovating power of the Russian people (narod).
Repin's Barge Haulers represents a key canvas in the formation of Russian realism, much as Gustave Courbet's The Stone Breakers () is considered a defining
Ilya Efimovich Repin Biography In Details
Beginning shortly before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in , he painted a series of pictures dealing with the theme of the Russian revolutionary movement: "Refusal to Confess", "Arrest of a Propagandist", "The Meeting", and "They did not Expect Him", the last of which is undoubtedly his masterpiece on the subject, mixing contrasting psychological moods and Russian and Ukrainian national motifs. His large-scale "Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk" is sometimes considered an archetype of the "Russian national style" displaying various social classes and the tensions among them set within the context of a traditional religious practice and united by a slow but relentless forward movement.
In , Repin completed one of his most psychologically intense paintings, Ivan the Terrible and his Son. This canvas displayed a horrified Ivan embracing his dying son, whom he had just struck and mortally wounded in an uncontrolled fit of rage. The visage of terrified Ivan is in marked contrast with that of his calm, almost Christlike son.
One of Repin's most comple
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Ilya Efimovich Repin (July 24 (August 5) , Chuguev, Russian Empire - September 29, , Kuokkala, Finland) is the greatest Russian realist who created the epic depiction of Russian reality in all its diversity. Theories of “pure art” at some moments occupied him, but the best works of the artist are far from them, the ideological orientation of the paintings performed by Ilya Repin was not the flaw, but the strongest side.
Features of the artist Ilya Repin: subtle psychologism, relevance, mapping of public tasks and anxieties, involvement in the life and aspirations of society, frequent reference to the moment of the emotional peak of the characters. The main genres in which the master worked: portraits, historical scenes, genre painting.
Famous paintings by artist Ilya Repin:"Barge Haulers on the Volga", "The procession in the Kursk province", "Ivan the Terrible kills his son", "We did not wait", "The Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan".
Those around him already during his lifetime considered him a genius and one of the greatest artists. Repin himself called himself an "ordinary figure" and declared that he had no talent. He was a s
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(Full name: Ilya Yefimovich Repin) Russian painter.
Born in the Ukraine, Repin is first trained as an icon painter. During his studies at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he is first refused Repin becomes convinced that true art should represent true life. One of his earliest works, Burlaks (The Boatmen on the Volga), fits that principle to the tick; it clearly illustrates how men are cheaper labor than horses. It is an instant hit and remains his most famous work to date. In addition to work critical of the existing social structure Repin creates historic tableaux and paints portraits, e.g. of Mussorgsky and Tolstoy.
At the academy Repin paints some biblical tableaux. For his graduation project The Raising of Jairus' daughter he is awarded a gold medal and a fellowship for no less than six years abroad. With his wife Vera he leaves for Europe. During their stay in Paris he is introduced to a new movement, that of impressionism, but sticks to his own almost photographic realistic style.
His best work is made in the 19th century. After the bolshevist assumption of power in Repin retires to his country estate in Finland.
This is a self-por
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