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Ilya Repin
Ukrainian-born Russian Realist Painter, 1844-1930
was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later, and where he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the USSR. Repin was born in the town of Chuhuiv near Kharkiv in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Russian military settlers. In 1866, after apprenticeship with a local icon painter named Bunakov and preliminary study of portrait painting, he went to Saint Petersburg and was shortly admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student. From 1873 to 1876 on the Academy's allowance, Repin sojourned in Italy and lived in Paris, where he was exposed to French Impressionist painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and colour. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never became an impressionist himself.
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Painting ID:: 57144
Tai Yi Wanlei and his son Ivan
mk253 canvas 199 x 254 cm in 1881-1885 Moscow, the State Tretyakov Gallery collection
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Painting ID:: 60500
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, November 16
Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, November 16, 1581, 1870-1873 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
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Painting ID:: 60501
Burlaks on Volga,
Burlaks on Volga, 1870-73 (State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)
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Painting ID:: 60502
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom,
Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, 1876 (State Russian Museum)
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Painting ID:: 60503
Apples and Leaves,
Apples and Leaves, 1879 (State Russian Museum)
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Ilya Repin
Ukrainian-born Russian Realist Painter, 1844-1930
was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. An important part of his work is dedicated to his native country, Ukraine. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later, and where he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the USSR. Repin was born in the town of Chuhuiv near Kharkiv in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Russian military settlers. In 1866, after apprenticeship with a local icon painter named Bunakov and preliminary study of portrait painting, he went to Saint Petersburg and was shortly admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student. From 1873 to 1876 on the Academy's allowance, Repin sojourned in Italy and lived in Paris, where he was exposed to French Impressionist painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and colour. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never became an impressionist himself.
. Related Artists to Ilya Repin: | Thomas Pollock Anshutz | Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio | Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin | Bachiacca | Bellows, George |
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