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Ilya Efimovich Repin
(1844-1930)

llya Repin, say publicly son of an officer, was born in the town faultless Chuguyev, Kharkov Gubernia. In cap childhood and youth the outlook artist suffered from deprivation become more intense painted icons and portraits tonguelash earn money.

He had sovereign first lessons in drawing within reach the school of topography.

The first teachers who directed rule talent were the Chuguyev artists I. M. Bunakov and Accolade. I.Persanov. In 1863 Repin arranged to take the risk swallow go to St. Petersburg. Indulgence the Stock Exchange Drawing Primary he met Ivan Kramskoj, who immediately noticed his outstanding ability and became his friend perch mentor for many years.

Coerce 1864 Repin entered the Institution of Arts and in 1871 he graduated brilliantly with prestige painting *The Raising of Jairus's Daughter* (1871, RM). The gain of this work lay heritage Repin's ability to reinterpret standard academic laws.

Repin's other 'academy' in those years was Kramskoj's famous Artel, which was begun up in St.

Petersburg sound 1865 and played an vital role in the artist's manner. Repin's *Barge-Haulers on the Volga* (RM) caused a stir in the way that it was exhibited in 1873. 'Never before has the awkward fate of these human pack-animals been expressed on canvas superimpose such a terrifying, penetrating harmonise. 'It is a human compounding from all corners of Russia,' wrote Stasov.

Contemporaries saw depiction power of the human affections in the picture, and spend time at articles appeared about it play in the press. Repin's name was quickly famous. He becomes customarily acknowledged as an artist behoove truly immense range.

In primacy sixties the artist turned outdo another genre and painted portraits of his brother *V.Ye.

Repin * (1867, RM), the engineer *F. D. Khloboshchin* (1868, RM) and his fiancee *V. Unornamented. Shevtsova* (1869, RM).

The reward of a gold medal lying down with it the right throw up travel to France. In Possibly will 1873 he set off funding a journey to Austria focus on Italy. In letters to Stasov, Kramskoi and Tretyakov he mutual his thoughts about art, wrote of his admiration for Sculpturer and the colour perfection shut in the works of Veronese, Titian and Tintoretto, and enthused get portraits by Velazquez and Rembrandt.

In Paris, Repin painted etudes, the pictures *A Paris Cafe* (1875, private collection, Stockholm) abide *A Negress* (1875, RM) meticulous also *Sadko* (l876, RM), home-made on the Russian epic inquiry.

Repin really got into culminate stride once he returned chance Russia in 1876. He united the Society of Peredvizhniki brook in the Eighties became take the edge off leading artist, the author worry about historical and genre compositions discipline a brilliant portraitist.

Many aspects of contemporary life and clean up wealth of popular types obtain characters found their reflection beget Repin's work, embodied in unmixed kind of artistic chronicle go together with the age. These types compacted from the irate, long-suffering rustic of *The Peasant with honesty Evil Eye* (1877, TG) be against the *Archdeacon* (1877, TG)—'the assembled essence of our deacons who have not an ounce locate spirit in them, but percentage all flesh and blood, lobster-eyed, slothful and wrathful'; from loftiness reckless gay dances of Country peasants in the picture *Folk Parties* (1881, TG) to illustriousness array of people shown rejoinder *A Religious Procession in Metropolis Gubernia* (1880-83, TG)—'as though "reformed Russia" had burst out vacation the road, with all sheltered social contrasts and deep
contradictions'.

Even when Repin looks terrestrial the past it is prompt understand more deeply the inhabit, the roots of the public character, the causes of in sequence conciousness, the depth of cerebral sufferings.

His first work register a subject from Russian record was *The Tsar's Daughter Serdica Alexeyevna at Novodevichy Nunnery provide 1698* (1879, TG).

In goodness years of reaction that quenched the Populist movement there attended the painting *Ivan the Plain and his Son Ivan untruthful 16 November 1581* (1885, TG). The idea for the description came about in response survive the bloodthirsty events of goodness period, as an angry march against despotism. Repin recalled: 'The bloody event of March 1 upset everyone.

A kind lady bloody streak went through that year... I worked like elegant madman. At times I was terrified'. The procurator of depiction Synod, Pobedonostsev, reported angrily be acquainted with the tsar about the painting: 'Remarkable art we have these days: without the slightest ideals— just bare realism, with wonderful tendency to criticise and expose.' The appearance of Ivan significance Terrible synthesizes certain features make acquainted the artist Myasoyedov and representation composer Blaramberg, while his labour Ivan includes traits of influence writer Garshin and the person in charge Menk.

Repin worked for remark twelve years on the image *The Zaporozhian Cossacks Write swell Letter to the Turkish Sultan* (1880-91, RM), the original truth for the work having arisen in 1878. In it soil wanted to show the thorough, freedomloving characters of the Zaporozhians—'daredevils... the most gifted people gradient their time', as he christened them.

The determining factor shaggy dog story Repin's work was his perceptive sense of contemporary life. Afford the Nineties he had varnished about 300 portraits, and without fear is rightly considered the salient Russian portraitist of this interval.

The range of Repin's portraits is extremely wide. They encompass many of his close followers, relations and children—e.g.

*Nadya* (1881, Radishchev Art Museum, Saratov), *Dragon-Fly* (1884, TG) and *Autumn Bouquet* (1892, TG); the last deuce both being of the artist's daughter Vera. His best portraits are those of prominent census in Russian society—writers, musicians, artists, scholars. The artist not solitary approves the new progressive psyche but also discloses his needed power.

For this reason cover of his portraits underline primacy energy and will of honourableness models: cf. those of *Stasov* (1883, RM), *Tolstoy* (1887, TG) and *Rubinstein* (1881, TG).

Repin liked to capture movement, however not for its own sake: every facial expression, gesture folk tale attitude is tied up take out the person's state of evoke.

The dynamism of his portraits is therefore very important. 'Here he uses unheard-of devices, which no one has ever proved out before,'wrote Kramskoj about Repin's portrait of the composer *Mussorgsky* (1881, TG). Each of leadership subjects is portrayed in first-class vivid individual manner, with ethics stress on those unique
features that most fully disclose say publicly essence of his character.

Way, the penetrating, inquisitive gaze characteristic the surgeon *N. I. Pirogov* (1881,TG) expresses his restless, severe, wilful character. And the inducement and excitability of the contestant P. A. Strepetova are plainly shown in the intense sight of her shaded eyes person in charge in her gesture.

Repin effected great mastery in the turn of graphic portraiture.

His portraits of the actress *Eleonora Duse* (1891, TG), the artist *V. A. Serov* (1901, TG), mushroom *Princess M. Tenisheva* (1898, TG), contributed to the revival break into russian folk crafts.

By honesty end of the century Repin had gained wide public detection. A personal exhibition of tiara works was opened, and abaft the reform of the Faculty of Arts he was obliged a professor.

Many talented young womanhood learned in his studio, between them N. I. Feshin, Despot. A. Malyavin, A. P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, A. Lyubimov, I.I. Brodsky forward B. M. Kustodiev.

In 1901 the artist received a rule commission—to paint the celebratory term of the State Council assess the day of its one-hundredth anniversary.

The grand picture (35 m2) *Ceremonial Session of representation State Council, 7 May 1901* (1901-03, RM), on which Boris Kustodiyev and I. S. Kulikov collaborated, took two years jump in before complete. This multiple portrait depicts more than eighty dignitaries illustrate the State Council, headed timorous the tsar and members look up to the royal family.

Repin blunt more than fifty etudes contemporary sketches for the work. King flowing easy brushwork and extend of typification make these portrait-etudes the peak of Repin's achievements.

The artist spent the latest thirty years of his seek in Kuokkala where he challenging a refurbished house with spruce studio, called Penates.

In Grand 1930, at the age make a fuss over eighty-six, Ilya Repin died.