1958, Vintage rare book Ilya Repin from memories (art)

Description: many illustrations 174 pages Ilya Efimovich Repin (Russian pref. Ilya Efimovich Rичpin, July 24 [August 5] 1844, Chuguev, Russian Empire - September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Finland) - Russian painter, teacher, professor, full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.From the very beginning of his career, from the 1870s, Repin became one of the key figures in Russian realism. The artist managed to solve the problem of reflecting the whole variety of the surrounding life in the painting. In his work, he managed to cover all aspects of modernity, to touch upon topics of concern to the public, and he reacted vividly to the news of the day. Repin's artistic language was characterized by plasticity; it perceived various stylistic trends from Spanish and Dutch artists of the 17th century to Alexander Ivanov and contemporary French impressionists.The heyday of Repin's creativity fell on the 1880s. He creates a gallery of portraits of his contemporaries, works as a historical artist and master of everyday scenes. In the field of historical painting, he was attracted by the opportunity to reveal the emotional expressiveness of the proposed situation. The artist's element was modernity, and even creating paintings on the themes of the legendary past, he remained a master of the burning present, closing the distance between the viewer and the heroes of his works. According to the art critic V.V. Stasov, Repin's work is "an encyclopedia of post-reform Russia."Repin spent the last 30 years of his life in Finland, at his Penates estate in Kuokkala. He continued to work, although not as intensively as before. In recent years, he has turned to biblical stories. In Kuokkala, Repin wrote his memoirs, and a number of his essays were included in the book of memoirs "The Distant Close." As a teacher he brought up a whole galaxy of renowned artists: B.M. Kustodiev, I.E. Grabar, I.S.Kulikov, F.A.Malyavin, A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, N.I. Feshin, V.A. Serov.

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