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Ilya Repin
Ukrainian-born Russian Realist Painter, 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. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later, and where he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the USSR. Repin was born in the town of Chuhuiv near Kharkiv in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Russian 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. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never became an impressionist himself.
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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy 1893
Painting ID:: 60509
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Portrait_of_Leo_Tolstoy
Portrait of Leo Tolstoy 1893
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Wedding of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna,
Wedding of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna, 1894
Painting ID:: 60510
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Wedding_of_Nicholas_II_and_Alexandra_Fyodorovna,
Wedding of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna, 1894
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Ceremonial session of the State Council 1900
Ceremonial session of the State Council 1900
Painting ID:: 60511
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Ceremonial session of the State Council 1900
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Composer Modest Mussorgsky
Composer Modest Mussorgsky
Painting ID:: 60512
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Composer_Modest_Mussorgsky
Composer Modest Mussorgsky
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Anton Rubinstein
Anton Rubinstein
Painting ID:: 60513
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Anton Rubinstein
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Ilya_Repin
Ukrainian-born Russian Realist Painter, 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. Beginning in the late 1920s, detailed works on him were published in the Soviet Union, where a Repin cult developed about a decade later, and where he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the USSR. Repin was born in the town of Chuhuiv near Kharkiv in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Russian 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. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never became an impressionist himself.
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