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Ilya Repin: Paintings
Ilya Repin: Paintings
Ilya Repin: Paintings
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Ilya Repin (1844 - 1930) was a Russian painter, master of portrait, historical, and scenes from everyday life. He was also Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, memoirist, author of several essays, compiled a book of memoirs "Far close", professor and rector (1898-1899) of the Academy of Fine Arts. Among his disciples was B. Kustodiev , M. Grabar , M. Kulikov , F. A. Maljavin and V. A. Serov. Repin was a leading painter of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. A significant part of his paintings is dedicated to his native fatherland, Ukraine. His realistic works habitually expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. During his middle age, Repin painted many of his most famous compatriots, including Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Mendeleev, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Modest Mussorgsky, Aleksandr Verzhbilovich, Pavel Tretyakov, and Taras Shevchenko.
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Release dateFeb 1, 2015
ISBN9786050353723
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    Ilya Repin: Paintings

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    Foreword

    Ilya Yefimovich Repin (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.

    Repin was born in the town of Chuguyev, near Kharkov Governorate, in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Ukrainian 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. His style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never embraced Impressionism.

    Throughout his career, Repin was drawn to the common people from whom he traced his origins. He frequently painted country folk, both Ukrainian and Russian, though

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