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'''Ilyá Yefímovich Répin''' (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин) (August 5 1844, [[Ukraine]] ([[Julian calendar]]: July 24) – September 29 1930, Kuokkala, [[Finland]]) was a leading [[Russia|Russian]] [[painter]] and [[sculpture|sculptor]] of the [[Peredvizhniki]] artistic school. His [[realist]]ic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Like other art forms in late 19th century Russia, the content became more realistic and more focused on social concerns, expressing the hopes fo the people for greater justice and equality. After the [[Russian Revolution of 1917]], this tradition of realism was adopted by the government and re-interpreted as the basis for [[Socialist realism]]. Beginning in the mid-1920s, a Repin cult was established in the [[Soviet Union]]; he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by [[Socialist realism|Socialist Realist]] artists in the USSR.
 
  
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'''Ilyá Yefímovich Répin''' (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин) (August 5, 1844, [[Ukraine]] – September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, [[Finland]]) was a leading [[Russia|Russian]] [[painter]] and [[sculpture|sculptor]] of the [[Peredvizhniki]] artistic school. His [[realist]]ic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Like other art forms in late nineteenth century Russia, the content became more realistic and more focused on social concerns, expressing the hopes of the people for greater justice and equality. After the [[Russian Revolution of 1917]], this tradition of realism was adopted by the government and re-interpreted as the basis for [[Socialist realism]]. Beginning in the mid-1920s, a Repin cult was established in the [[Soviet Union]]; he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by Socialist Realist artists in the USSR.
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==Life and Work==  
 
==Life and Work==  
[[Image:Kurskaya korennaya.jpg|thumb|300px|''Easter Procession in the Region of Kursk'' (1880-83).]]
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[[Image:Kurskaya korennaya.jpg|thumb|300px|''Easter Procession in the Region of Kursk'' (1880-83)]]
  
 
Repin was born in the town of Chuguev near Kharkov 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 [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and color. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially [[Rembrandt]], and he never became an impressionist himself. Throughout his career, he was drawn to the common people from whom he traced his origins, and he frequently painted country folk, both Ukrainian and Russian, though in later years he also painted members of the Imperial Russian elite, the intelligentsia, and the aristocracy, including Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]].  
 
Repin was born in the town of Chuguev near Kharkov 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 [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and color. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially [[Rembrandt]], and he never became an impressionist himself. Throughout his career, he was drawn to the common people from whom he traced his origins, and he frequently painted country folk, both Ukrainian and Russian, though in later years he also painted members of the Imperial Russian elite, the intelligentsia, and the aristocracy, including Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]].  
  
 
===The itinerants===
 
===The itinerants===
In 1878, Repin joined the free-thinking "Association of ''Peredvizhniki'' Artists", generally referred to as "the Wanderers" or "The Itinerants" in English. The ''Peredvizhniki'' were a group of [[Russia]]n [[realism (arts)|realist]] artists who in protest to academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative which evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions in 1870. The society formed in 1870 in [[St. Petersburg]] under [[Ivan Kramskoi]], G.G. Myasoedov, [[Nikolai Ge]] and [[Vasily Perov]]'s initiative during a struggle of the avant-garde art forces of the country for democratic ideals, and in a counterbalance to the official center of art — the [[St.Petersburg Academy of Arts]]. The society developed the best traditions of the [[Artel of Artists]] headed by Kramskoi, who became the leader of the new association. From 1871 to 1923 the society arranged 48 mobile exhibitions in [[St.Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]], after which they were shown in [[Kiev]], Kharkov, [[Kazan]], [[Orel]], [[Riga]], [[Odessa]] and other cities. The Peredvizhniki’s society, during their blossoming (1870-1890), developed an increasingly wider scope, and increasing naturalness and freedom of the images. In contrast to the traditional dark palette of the time, they chose a freer, wider manner with a lighter palette in depicting light. They aimed for naturalness in their images, and depiction of peoples relationship with their surroundings. Their [[art]] showed not only poverty but also the beauty of folk way of life; not only suffering but also fortitude, strength of characters.
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In 1878, Repin joined the free-thinking "Association of ''Peredvizhniki'' Artists," generally referred to as "the Wanderers" or "The Itinerants" in English. The ''Peredvizhniki'' were a group of [[Russia]]n [[realism (arts)|realist]] artists who in protest to academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative which evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions in 1870. The society formed in 1870 in [[St. Petersburg]] under [[Ivan Kramskoi]], G.G. Myasoedov, [[Nikolai Ge]] and [[Vasily Perov]]'s initiative during a struggle of the avant-garde art forces of the country for democratic ideals, and in a counterbalance to the official center of art—the [[St.Petersburg Academy of Arts]]. The society developed the best traditions of the [[Artel of Artists]] headed by Kramskoi, who became the leader of the new association. From 1871 to 1923 the society arranged 48 mobile exhibitions in [[St.Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]], after which they were shown in [[Kiev]], Kharkov, [[Kazan]], [[Orel]], [[Riga]], [[Odessa]] and other cities. The Peredvizhniki’s society, during their blossoming (1870-1890), developed an increasingly wider scope, and increasing naturalness and freedom of the images. In contrast to the traditional dark palette of the time, they chose a freer, wider manner with a lighter palette in depicting light. They aimed for naturalness in their images, and depiction of people’s relationship with their surroundings. Their [[art]] showed not only poverty but also the beauty of folk way of life; not only suffering but also fortitude, strength of characters.
 
   
 
   
Repin arrived in the capital at about the time of the movement began to take off. His fame was established by his painting of the "Volga Barge Haulers", a work which portrayed the hard lot of these poor folk but which was not without hope for the youth of Russia. From 1882 he lived in Saint Petersburg but frequently visited his Ukrainian homeland and on occasion made tours abroad. [[Image:Belarus-Zdrawneva-Manor of Ilya Repin-1.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Repin's countryhouse in Zdravnevo, Belarus.]]
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Repin arrived in the capital at about the time the movement began to take off. His fame was established by his painting of the "Volga Barge Haulers," a work which portrayed the hard lot of these poor folk but which was not without hope for the youth of Russia. From 1882 he lived in Saint Petersburg but frequently visited his Ukrainian homeland and on occasion made tours abroad. [[Image:Belarus-Zdrawneva-Manor of Ilya Repin-1.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Repin's countryhouse in Zdravnevo, Belarus.]]
  
 
===Historical and contemporary subjects===
 
===Historical and contemporary subjects===
Beginning shortly before the assassination of Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia]] in 1881, he painted a series of pictures dealing with the theme of the Russian revolutionary movement: "Refusal to Confess", "Arrest of a Propagandist", "The Meeting", and "They did not Expect Him", the last of which is undoubtedly his masterpiece on the subject, mixing contrasting psychological moods and Russian and Ukrainian national motifs. His large-scale "Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk" is sometimes considered an archetype of the "Russian national style" displaying various social classes and the tensions among them set within the context of a traditional religious practice, united by a slow but relentless forward movement.  
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Beginning shortly before the assassination of Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia]] in 1881, he painted a series of pictures dealing with the theme of the Russian revolutionary movement: "Refusal to Confess," "Arrest of a Propagandist," "The Meeting," and "They did not Expect Him," the last of which is undoubtedly his masterpiece on the subject, mixing contrasting psychological moods and Russian and Ukrainian national motifs. His large-scale "Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk" is sometimes considered an archetype of the "Russian national style" displaying various social classes and the tensions among them set within the context of a traditional religious practice, united by a slow but relentless forward movement.  
  
 
In 1885, Repin completed one of his most psychologically intense paintings, "Ivan the Terrible and his Son." This canvas displayed a horrified Ivan embracing his dying son, whom he had just struck and mortally wounded in an uncontrolled fit of rage. The visage of terrified Ivan is in marked contrast with that of his helpless son.  
 
In 1885, Repin completed one of his most psychologically intense paintings, "Ivan the Terrible and his Son." This canvas displayed a horrified Ivan embracing his dying son, whom he had just struck and mortally wounded in an uncontrolled fit of rage. The visage of terrified Ivan is in marked contrast with that of his helpless son.  
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During his maturity, Repin painted many of his most celebrated compatriots, including the novelist [[Leo Tolstoy]], the scientist [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], the imperial official [[Konstantin Pobedonostsev]], the composer [[Modest Mussorgsky]], the philanthropist [[Pavel Tretyakov]], and the Ukrainian poet and painter, [[Taras Shevchenko]].  
 
During his maturity, Repin painted many of his most celebrated compatriots, including the novelist [[Leo Tolstoy]], the scientist [[Dmitri Mendeleev]], the imperial official [[Konstantin Pobedonostsev]], the composer [[Modest Mussorgsky]], the philanthropist [[Pavel Tretyakov]], and the Ukrainian poet and painter, [[Taras Shevchenko]].  
  
In 1903 he was commissioned by the Russian government to paint his most grandiose design, a 400 x 877 cm canvas representing a ceremonial session of the State Council of [[Imperial Russia]]. [[Image:Repin Cossacks.jpg|thumb|300px|''[[The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey]]'' (1880-91)]]
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In 1903 he was commissioned by the Russian government to paint his most grandiose design, a 400 x 877 cm canvas representing a ceremonial session of the State Council of [[Imperial Russia]]. [[Image:Repin Cossacks.jpg|thumb|300px|''The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey'' (1880-91)]]
  
 
===Later life===
 
===Later life===
Repin himself designed his home Penaty (literally, "the Penates"), located just to the north of Saint Petersburg. After the [[Russian Revolution of 1917]], Penaty was incorporated into [[Finland]]. He was invited by [[Vladimir Lenin]] to come back to Russia but refused the invitation, using the excuse that he was too old to make the journey. With the exception of a portrait of Provisional Government head, [[Alexander Kerensky]], he never painted anything substantial on the subject of the 1917 revolutions or the Soviet experiment that followed. His last painting, "The Hopak", was on a Ukrainian Cossack theme. In 1930, he died in Kuokkala, [[Finland]] (now Repino, Leningrad Oblast). The Penates are part of the World Heritage Site ''Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments''.[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/540/multiple=1&unique_number=635] In 1940, Penaty was opened for the public as a house museum. [[Alexander Glazunov]]'s ''Oriental Rhapsody'', Op. 29 (1889) is dedicated to Ilya Repin.
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Repin himself designed his home Penaty (literally, "the Penates"), located just to the north of Saint Petersburg. After the [[Russian Revolution of 1917]], Penaty was incorporated into [[Finland]]. He was invited by [[Vladimir Lenin]] to come back to Russia but refused the invitation, using the excuse that he was too old to make the journey. With the exception of a portrait of Provisional Government head, [[Alexander Kerensky]], he never painted anything substantial on the subject of the 1917 revolutions or the Soviet experiment that followed. His last painting, "The Hopak," was on a Ukrainian Cossack theme. In 1930, he died in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, Leningrad Oblast). The Penates are part of the World Heritage Site ''Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments''. In 1940, Penaty was opened for the public as a house museum. [[Alexander Glazunov]]'s ''Oriental Rhapsody'', Op. 29 (1889) is dedicated to Ilya Repin.
 
 
==Bibliography==
 
 
 
*Fan Parker and Stephen Jan Parker, ''Russia on Canvas: Ilya Repin'' (University Park-London: Pennsylvania State UP, 1980). Repeats the standard Soviet interpretation of Repin's life and work.
 
*Grigory Sternin and others, ''Ilya Repin: Painting Graphic Arts'' (Leningrad: Aurora, 1985). Standard Soviet treatment, but well illustrated.
 
*Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, ''Ilya Repin and the World of Russian Art'' (New York: Columbia UP, 1990). Critical non-Soviet treatment with much fresh information, but geared primarily toward academics.
 
 
  
 
===Paintings===
 
===Paintings===
  
Repin's paintings appear in the following Wikipedia articles:
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Repin's paintings appear in the following New World Encyclopedia articles:
*[[Peredvizhniki]] | [[Cossacks]] | [[State Council of Imperial Russia]] | [[Ivan IV of Russia]] | [[Krestny khod]] | [[Myra]] | [[Tsardom of Russia]] | [[Sadko]] | [[Eudoxia Streshneva]] | [[Sophia Alekseyevna]] | [[Modest Mussorgsky]] | [[Dmitry Mendeleyev]] | [[Gavriil Derzhavin]] | [[Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum]] | [[Anton Rubinstein]] | [[Aleksey Pisemsky]] | [[Konstantin Pobedonostsev]] | [[Sergius Witte]] | [[Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov|Pavel Tretyakov]] | [[Afanasy Fet]] | [[Vladimir Stasov]] | [[Alexander Glazunov]] | [[Leo Tolstoy]]
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*[[Ivan IV of Russia]] | [[Modest Mussorgsky]] | [[Dmitri Mendeleev]] | [[Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin]] | [[Afanasy Fet]] | [[Alexander Glazunov]] | [[Leo Tolstoy]]
  
 
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Image:REPIN Ivan Terrible&Ivan.jpg|[[Ivan the Terrible]] and his son Ivan [[1870]]-[[1873]]
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Image:REPIN Ivan Terrible&Ivan.jpg|[[Ivan IV of Russia|Ivan the Terrible]] and his son Ivan 1870-1873
Image:burlaks_on_volga_by_repin.jpg|''Burlaks on [[Volga]]'' , 1870-73
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Image:Sadko.jpg|[[Sadko]] in the Underwater Kingdom 1876
Image:Sadko.jpg|[[Sadko]] in the Underwater Kingdom [[1876]]
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Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 002.jpg|Apples and Leaves 1879
Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 002.jpg|Apples and Leaves [[1879]]
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Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 001.jpg|Party 1883
Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 001.jpg|Party [[1883]]
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Image:Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887).jpg|Portrait of [[Leo Tolstoy]] 1887  
Image:Grandukesbride.jpg|Grand Duke Choosing His Bride [[1885]]
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Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 005.jpg|[[St Nicholas]] of [[Myra]] in [[Lycia]] 1889
Image:Ilya Efimovich Repin (1844-1930) - Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887).jpg|Portrait of [[Leo Tolstoy]] [[1887]]
 
Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 005.jpg|[[St Nicholas]] of [[Myra]] in [[Lycia]] [[1889]]
 
 
Image:Medeleeff by repin.jpg|Portrait of [[Mendeleev]]
 
Image:Medeleeff by repin.jpg|Portrait of [[Mendeleev]]
Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 004.jpg|Portrait of [[Leo Tolstoy]] [[1893]]
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Image:Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin 004.jpg|Portrait of [[Leo Tolstoy]] 1893
Image:Zhirkiewicz1894.jpg|Portrait of writer Alexander Zhirkevich [[1894]]
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Image:Zhirkiewicz1894.jpg|Portrait of writer Alexander Zhirkevich 1894
Image:Repin state council2.jpg|Ceremonial session of the State Council [[1900]]
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Image:Repin state council2.jpg|Ceremonial session of the State Council 1900
Image:Mussorgsky by repin.jpg|Composer [[Modest Mussorgsky]]
 
 
Image:Rubinstein repin.jpg|[[Anton Rubinstein]]
 
Image:Rubinstein repin.jpg|[[Anton Rubinstein]]
 
Image:RepinPaintersDaughter.jpg|Painter's daughter
 
Image:RepinPaintersDaughter.jpg|Painter's daughter
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Image:Pisemsky.jpg|[[Aleksey Pisemsky]]
 
Image:Pisemsky.jpg|[[Aleksey Pisemsky]]
 
Image:Pushkin derzhavin.jpg|[[Pushkin]] Reciting His Poem Before Old [[Derzhavin]] (1911)
 
Image:Pushkin derzhavin.jpg|[[Pushkin]] Reciting His Poem Before Old [[Derzhavin]] (1911)
Image:Repin 17October.jpg|''[[October Manifesto|17 October 1905]]'', [[1906]]-[[1911]]
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Image:Repin 17October.jpg|''[[October Manifesto|17 October 1905]]'', 1906-1911
 
Image:Nicolas II of Russia by Iliya Repin.jpg|Emperor Nicholas II (sketch)
 
Image:Nicolas II of Russia by Iliya Repin.jpg|Emperor Nicholas II (sketch)
  
 
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==References==
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'''Russian'''
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*Sternin, Grigory, and others. ''Ilya Repin: Painting Graphic Arts''. Leningrad: Aurora, 1985.
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'''English'''
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*Parker, Fan and Stephen Jan. ''Russia on Canvas: Ilya Repin''. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. ISBN 0271002522
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*Repin, Ilya. ''Ilya Repin: Russia's Secret''. B.V. Waanders Uitgeverji, 2005. ISBN 978-9040096457
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*Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl. ''Ilya Repin and the World of Russian Art''. Columbia University Press, 1990. ISBN 0231069642
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
{{commons|Илья Ефимович Репин}}
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All links retrieved February 25, 2018.
*[http://www.abcgallery.com/R/repin/repin.html Ilya Repin at Olga's Gallery]
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*[http://www.abcgallery.com/R/repin/repin.html Ilya Repin at Olga's Gallery]  
*[http://www.russianartgallery.org/famous/repin.htm Repin's paintings at The Russian Art Gallery]
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*[http://www.russianartgallery.org/famous/repin.htm Repin's paintings at The Russian Art Gallery]  
*[http://www.russianmuseums.info/M267 Penaty, currently a museum]
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Ilyá Yefímovich Répin, self-portrait

Ilyá Yefímovich Répin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин) (August 5, 1844, Ukraine – September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Finland) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the tensions within the existing social order. Like other art forms in late nineteenth century Russia, the content became more realistic and more focused on social concerns, expressing the hopes of the people for greater justice and equality. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, this tradition of realism was adopted by the government and re-interpreted as the basis for Socialist realism. Beginning in the mid-1920s, a Repin cult was established in the Soviet Union; he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by Socialist Realist artists in the USSR.

Life and Work

Easter Procession in the Region of Kursk (1880-83)

Repin was born in the town of Chuguev near Kharkov 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 color. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never became an impressionist himself. Throughout his career, he was drawn to the common people from whom he traced his origins, and he frequently painted country folk, both Ukrainian and Russian, though in later years he also painted members of the Imperial Russian elite, the intelligentsia, and the aristocracy, including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

The itinerants

In 1878, Repin joined the free-thinking "Association of Peredvizhniki Artists," generally referred to as "the Wanderers" or "The Itinerants" in English. The Peredvizhniki were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest to academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative which evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions in 1870. The society formed in 1870 in St. Petersburg under Ivan Kramskoi, G.G. Myasoedov, Nikolai Ge and Vasily Perov's initiative during a struggle of the avant-garde art forces of the country for democratic ideals, and in a counterbalance to the official center of art—the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts. The society developed the best traditions of the Artel of Artists headed by Kramskoi, who became the leader of the new association. From 1871 to 1923 the society arranged 48 mobile exhibitions in St.Petersburg and Moscow, after which they were shown in Kiev, Kharkov, Kazan, Orel, Riga, Odessa and other cities. The Peredvizhniki’s society, during their blossoming (1870-1890), developed an increasingly wider scope, and increasing naturalness and freedom of the images. In contrast to the traditional dark palette of the time, they chose a freer, wider manner with a lighter palette in depicting light. They aimed for naturalness in their images, and depiction of people’s relationship with their surroundings. Their art showed not only poverty but also the beauty of folk way of life; not only suffering but also fortitude, strength of characters.

Repin arrived in the capital at about the time the movement began to take off. His fame was established by his painting of the "Volga Barge Haulers," a work which portrayed the hard lot of these poor folk but which was not without hope for the youth of Russia. From 1882 he lived in Saint Petersburg but frequently visited his Ukrainian homeland and on occasion made tours abroad.

Repin's countryhouse in Zdravnevo, Belarus.

Historical and contemporary subjects

Beginning shortly before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881, he painted a series of pictures dealing with the theme of the Russian revolutionary movement: "Refusal to Confess," "Arrest of a Propagandist," "The Meeting," and "They did not Expect Him," the last of which is undoubtedly his masterpiece on the subject, mixing contrasting psychological moods and Russian and Ukrainian national motifs. His large-scale "Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk" is sometimes considered an archetype of the "Russian national style" displaying various social classes and the tensions among them set within the context of a traditional religious practice, united by a slow but relentless forward movement.

In 1885, Repin completed one of his most psychologically intense paintings, "Ivan the Terrible and his Son." This canvas displayed a horrified Ivan embracing his dying son, whom he had just struck and mortally wounded in an uncontrolled fit of rage. The visage of terrified Ivan is in marked contrast with that of his helpless son.

One of Repin's most complex paintings, "The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan of Turkey" occupied many years of his life. He conceived this painting as a study in laughter, but also believed that it involved the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity; in short, Ukrainian Cossack republicanism. Begun in the late 1870s, it was only completed in 1891, and, ironically, was immediately purchased by the Tsar. The Tsar paid 35,000 rubles for the painting, the largest amount ever paid for a Russian painting to that time.

During his maturity, Repin painted many of his most celebrated compatriots, including the novelist Leo Tolstoy, the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the imperial official Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the composer Modest Mussorgsky, the philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov, and the Ukrainian poet and painter, Taras Shevchenko.

In 1903 he was commissioned by the Russian government to paint his most grandiose design, a 400 x 877 cm canvas representing a ceremonial session of the State Council of Imperial Russia.

The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey (1880-91)

Later life

Repin himself designed his home Penaty (literally, "the Penates"), located just to the north of Saint Petersburg. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Penaty was incorporated into Finland. He was invited by Vladimir Lenin to come back to Russia but refused the invitation, using the excuse that he was too old to make the journey. With the exception of a portrait of Provisional Government head, Alexander Kerensky, he never painted anything substantial on the subject of the 1917 revolutions or the Soviet experiment that followed. His last painting, "The Hopak," was on a Ukrainian Cossack theme. In 1930, he died in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, Leningrad Oblast). The Penates are part of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. In 1940, Penaty was opened for the public as a house museum. Alexander Glazunov's Oriental Rhapsody, Op. 29 (1889) is dedicated to Ilya Repin.

Paintings

Repin's paintings appear in the following New World Encyclopedia articles:

References
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Russian

  • Sternin, Grigory, and others. Ilya Repin: Painting Graphic Arts. Leningrad: Aurora, 1985.

English

  • Parker, Fan and Stephen Jan. Russia on Canvas: Ilya Repin. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. ISBN 0271002522
  • Repin, Ilya. Ilya Repin: Russia's Secret. B.V. Waanders Uitgeverji, 2005. ISBN 978-9040096457
  • Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl. Ilya Repin and the World of Russian Art. Columbia University Press, 1990. ISBN 0231069642

External links

All links retrieved February 25, 2018.

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