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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy Painting ID:: 60509
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Ilya Repin Portrait of Leo Tolstoy Portrait of Leo Tolstoy 1893
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Wedding of Nicholas II and Alexandra Fyodorovna, Painting ID:: 60510
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Ilya Repin 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 Painting ID:: 60511
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Ilya Repin Ceremonial session of the State Council 1900 Ceremonial session of the State Council 1900
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Composer Modest Mussorgsky Painting ID:: 60512
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Ilya Repin Composer Modest Mussorgsky Composer Modest Mussorgsky
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Anton Rubinstein Painting ID:: 60513
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Ilya Repin Anton Rubinstein Anton Rubinstein
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Ilya Repin
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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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