A good artist - a successful artist?

[Seriy]

Semen Semenovich, yes, included. I am a young man believed to prominent artists, but now my enthusiasm greatly understated - with such tools, with such skill they produced a "market" products - Bryullov served lovers salon, academic, and Repin - the Populists, "advanced" intellectuals, which led to literary and illustrative, T e in the global context hudozhestvennostnom-to konyukturnosti. The forum published analysis of paintings by Repin, on the charter of 1905, horror, death of the artist.
Wander in the Russian Museum between his schoolgirl in black and all sorts of figures and think, Is that all? and at least some artistic task Ilya Efimovich a set? Contemporary Impressionist and Picasso, all passed by, populism burned in the fire of the first Russian revolution, ceased to be relevant and Repin.