The Artist Ilya Efimovich Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin @- Russian painter born 24 July 1844 in the city of Chuguev. Started in the workshop of icon painter bunakova. Repin"s talent was evident quite early on and soon he was painting churches. The money from these works, he went to St-Петербург that would teach painting professionally. Here he entered the art school named after R. K. Zhukovsky and I. N. Kramskoy.
Repin remember there the teachers of your constant self-criticism. The artist felt that it all turns out badly and over his paintings, he worked more than others, leading to unprecedented results. Soon none of his classmates could not equal him in the art of handling the brush.
Ilya Repin was very sensitive to what is happening in society – is often reflected in his paintings. The artist talked with the youth, which was set up very democratically and was fascinated by the ideas of Chernyshevsky. Repin was a friend of another great artist Kramskoy. Together they worked and engaged in social activities. Together they joined a traveling exhibitions when came out of the Academy of Arts for the divergence.
barge haulers on the Volga, Cossacks composing a letter to the Turkish Sultan, Sadko – all these works were written by the great artist. He was often accused of inconsistency. Today, he paints a picture according to the Bible, tomorrow-нибудь a psychological sketch or portrait. All of his creativity inconsistent, subject only to a sudden impulse of Ilya Efimovich. And the Creator said that he likes variety.
80-е years, begins the most productive period of his life. In this period he painted a picture @ldquo;Крестный move in Kursk province@rdquo; that immediately bought by Tretyakov in his gallery for a lot of money. Repin was attracted by the theme of revolutionary-настроенной Russia. One of the most significant works on this topic is @ldquo;Не waited@rdquo;. Shown here is the revolutionary who has finally returned home from exile. In this picture of a very complex and broad range of emotions. Each character is going through that-то his own. Travelling exhibitions to this picture, it was almost impossible to come up since around a crowd of people. Many praised the artist for what he didn"t stop @ldquo;Бурлаках@rdquo;, and went on.
Highest peak in his work, Repin has reached with the creation of the painting @ldquo;Иван the terrible and his son Ivan@rdquo;. This picture is of Tsar Ivan the terrible, suddenly understanding, what a terrible deed he committed, killing his son. @ldquo;Запорожцы write a letter to the Turkish Sultan@rdquo; – was not invented the plot for the film. The story he heard from the Ukrainian historian, who told him of how boldly replied the Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan, who demanded obedience from them.
1894 Ilya Repin is a Professor at the Academy of fine arts. It was a very difficult period in his life. Ceased to act right hand and he had to learn to write with the left. In 1907, Repin left the Academy and moved to the country Hearth and home in Finland to his wife, Natalya Nordman. He died a great painter in the 1930s.
Artist Repin paintings:
haulers going in a Ford
barge haulers on the Volga
the Hunchback
Ivan the terrible and his son Ivan
religious Procession in Kursk province
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
the sun
did Not expect
Poor girl fisherwoman
Nicholas of Myra saves three from death row innocent prisoners
Autumn bouquet. Portrait of Vera Ilyinichna Repina, the
Stay
Refusal of confession before execution
portrait of the composer modest Musorgsky
Portrait of Nadya Repina, the artist"s daughter
a portrait of the writer Leo Tolstoy
Portrait of Tretyakov
Seeing rookie
Sadko
Dragonfly
Party
Apples and leaves
the Cossacks composing a letter to the Turkish Sultan
Leo Tolstoy in the woods
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