Ilya Repin

Ilya Repin

By Grigori Sternin, Jelena Kirillina
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Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as "The Itinerants". When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov's studio to learn the icon-painter's craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him. From 1864 to 1873 Repin studied at the Academy of the Arts in Saint Petersburg under Kramskoï. Repin also studied in Paris for two years, where he was strongly influenced by outdoor painting without, becoming an Impressionist, a style that he judged too distant from reality. Taken with French pictorial culture, he worked to understand its role in the evolution of contemporary art. Most of Repin's powerful work deals with the social dilemmas of Russian life in the nineteenth century. He established his reputation in 1873 with the celebrated picture Barge Haulers on the Volga, symbol of the oppressed Russian people pulling their chains. This struggle against the autocracy inspired many works. He also painted Russia's official history in such works as Ivan the Terrible Meditating at the Deathbed of his Son Ivan. Seen as one of the masters of realist painting, he devoted himself to portraying the lives of his contemporaries: the most renowned Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals; peasants at work; the faithful in procession; and revolutionaries on the barricades. He understood the pains of the people perfectly, as well as the needs and the joys of ordinary lives. Kramskoï said on this subject: "Repin has a gift for showing the peasant as he is. I know many painters who show the moujik, and they do it well, but none can do so with as much talent as Repin."Repin's works, which depart from the academic constraints of their predecessors, are both delicate and powerful. He achieved a superior mastery of skill, and found new accents to transcribe the many-coloured and brilliant vibrations he sensed in the ordinary world around him.

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Length3 hrs 28 mins
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Publish dateJan 17, 2012
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Ilya Ilya
2permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless otherwise
3Introduction
4The Creative World Of Repin
5Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge, Tolstoy at Work, 1884. Lithograph. Private collection.
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6their arms.
7dark and old.7
8Lermontov, Ostrovsky, Leo Tolstoy, Goncharov, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Nekrasov, or
9virtually, even entirely non-existent.10
10His Works
11Self-Portrait
12The Russian Museum, St Petersburg
13SLAVIC COMPOSERS
14Moscow Conservatory, Moscow
15The Russian Museum, St Petersburg
16GRAND DUCHESS SOPHIA AT THE NOVODEVITCHY CONVENT
17The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
18Russian State Museum, St Petersburg
19PORTRAIT OF THE SURGEON NIKOLAY PIROGOV
20State Tretyakov Gallery, St Petersburg
21Radishchev Museum of Arts, Saratov, Russia
22DRAGONFLY. PORTRAIT OF VERA REPINA, THE ARTIST’S DAUGHTER
23The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
24PORTRAIT OF THE COMPOSER MODEST MUSSORGSKY
25The Russian Museum, St Petersburg
26PORTRAIT OF THE ACTRESS PELAGEYA STREPETOVA
27The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
28PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST GRIGORIY MYASOYEDOV
29The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
30life of the upper echelon of Russian society in the nineteenth century.
31PORTRAIT OF ANTON RUBINSTEIN
32The Russian Museum, St Petersburg
33Museum of Russian Art, Kiev
34PORTRAIT OF SOPHIA DRAGOMIROVA
35The Russian Museum, St Petersburg
36The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
37UNEXPECTED RETURN
38The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
39Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow
40Oil on canvas, 69 x 53 cm
41The Russian Museum, St Petersburg
42PORTRAIT OF THE WRITER LEONID ANDREYEV ON A PLEASURE BOAT
43Gallery of Art, Tver, Russia
44Biography
45Paints Portrait of Vera Shevtsova.
46Birth of his son, Yuri.
47Paints portrait of Nikolai Gay, Polina Strepetova, and Rest.
48Maria Benois, and a self-portrait.
49Yelizaveta Zvantseva at the Easel.
50portrait of the peasant S. Shavrov.

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