Petrov-Vodkin "Family commander"

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Сообщение от Peter; 1784163"

More recently, a hundred years ago, and perhaps even and twenty people who love art and has learned to honestly express their opinions, said by.chto we see the vulgarity, bad taste, disgusting manifestations of the basest and instincts in man.

That's exactly a hundred years ago, said Ilya Repin VII after visiting exhibitions of paintings, "the Union of Russian Artists".

Сообщение от Peter; 1784163"

Thank God this nightmare is over dnya.A the exhibition would be better and not vsponminat.

And not only remembered Repin, and publicly expressed by writing, "art critic. Letter to the Editor" in the newspaper "Vedomosti Exchange March 2, 1910.
Repin have seen a picture of Petrov-Vodkin's "Dream" a manifestation of the hated him dekadenstva, a challenge to the art, a call to realism.
The tone of the note, of course, was offensive to the Petrov-Vodkin, Maistre called him "an illiterate slave" and "ignorant."
Fortunately, in a polemic with Repin joined Alexander Benois in the paper "Speech" and L. Bakst in the same "Stock-Exchange Gazette" and stood up for Petrov-Vodkin, obyaseiv Repin and his supporters plan "Dream", its symbolic content .

"Dream" 1910, c /m, 161h187, RM.

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By the way, the influence of Italian Renaissance artists on Petrov-Vodkin: in "The Dream" is clearly (and in my opinion, deliberately) used the composition youthful Raphael "Dream Knight."


Raphael

"Allegory (Knight's Dream)"

c.
1504

Oil on canvas, 17 x 17 cm

National Gallery, London