Repin Ilya

Ilya Efimovich Repin – the great Russian painter, master of portrait genre. Throughout his life, he painted many portraits of famous people, writers, poets, one of whom is the portrait

Ilya Efimovich Repin was still a promising student of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramsky, when his future wife had already posed for him for paintings, drawings and sketches. Vera Alekseevna Shevtsova, the

Emperor Alexander III is depicted with his family surrounded by courtiers and ministers soon after the coronation on May 5, 1883, at the moment of his speech to the volost

In 1880, Repin began writing The Arrest of the Propaganda. He worked on it for a long time, until 1892. Great effort cost the artist to work on a central

The lithograph from the picture was published in 1887 by A. A. Ilin’s cartographic establishment. The publication caused displeasure of the Tolstoy family, who considered it undesirable “to spread the

This is one of the examples of the artist’s reference to historical subjects, which caused him to associate with the events of modern Russian life. For the first time the

In the 1880s-1890s, E. V. Pavlov was a frequent visitor to the Repin house. Under his medical supervision was the wife of the artist Vera Alekseevna. Repin’s daughter Nadia had

This painting by Repin is one of the most famous canvases of the artist and has the name “Peasant of timid”. This portrait is the most reliable example of the

In the summer of 1877, Ilya Repin wrote to his friend, a student, later a major artistic figure, Adrian Prakhov: “I am inclined to think that Abramtsevo is the best

Repin’s portrait mastery amazes with the richness and variety of images created by the artist. In each case, Repin demonstrates the ability to modify the painting style, change the compositional,

The painting was commissioned by Repin for the 100th anniversary of the Imperial Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo on the initiative of the Lyceum Society. According to the memoirs of contemporaries,

Portraits of their loved ones Repin created all his life. Especially often the artist wrote his first wife, Vera, and children. Several times Repin posed his brother Vasily, professionally engaged

The painting “Sadko” Repin wrote in 1876, while in Paris. But in France, Russian folk motifs of the canvas were not appreciated. But in the homeland of the artist his

Apparently, the portrait of the writer Andreev remained unfinished. Before us is more likely a worked sketch than a finished work. However, perhaps this is a technique that the artist

Using a number of impressionistic techniques in painting, the artist in the painting “Dragonfly” remains within the limits of his usual manner with precise modeling of the form. The influence