Sternin / Kirillina Ilya Repin

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-78042-733-1
Verlag: Parkstone-International
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 199 Seiten

Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as 'The Itinerants'. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov's studio to learn the icon-painter's craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him. From 1864 to 1873 Repin studied at the Academy of the Arts in Saint Petersburg under Kramskoï. Repin also studied in Paris for two years, where he was strongly influenced by outdoor painting without, becoming an Impressionist, a style that he judged too distant from reality. Taken with French pictorial culture, he worked to understand its role in the evolution of contemporary art. Most of Repin's powerful work deals with the social dilemmas of Russian life in the nineteenth century. He established his reputation in 1873 with the celebrated picture Barge Haulers on the Volga, symbol of the oppressed Russian people pulling their chains. This struggle against the autocracy inspired many works. He also painted Russia's official history in such works as Ivan the Terrible Meditating at the Deathbed of his Son Ivan. Seen as one of the masters of realist painting, he devoted himself to portraying the lives of his contemporaries: the most renowned Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals; peasants at work; the faithful in procession; and revolutionaries on the barricades. He understood the pains of the people perfectly, as well as the needs and the joys of ordinary lives. Kramskoï said on this subject: 'Repin has a gift for showing the peasant as he is. I know many painters who show the moujik, and they do it well, but none can do so with as much talent as Repin.'Repin's works, which depart from the academic constraints of their predecessors, are both delicate and powerful. He achieved a superior mastery of skill, and found new accents to transcribe the many-coloured and brilliant vibrations he sensed in the ordinary world around him.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sternin, Grigori

Kirillina, Jelena

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;5
2;Introduction;7
3;The Creative World Of Repin;13
4;His Works;129
4.1;PORTRAIT OF VERA CHEVTSOVA (REPIN’S WIFE SINCE 1872);130
4.2;SLAVIC COMPOSERS;133
4.3;SADKO IN THE UNDERWATER KINGDOM;134
4.4;GRAND DUCHESS SOPHIA AT THE NOVODEVITCHY CONVENT;137
4.5;PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER ARKHIP IVANOVICH KUINJI;138
4.6;PORTRAIT OF THE SURGEON NIKOLAY PIROGOV;141
4.7;PORTRAIT OF NADYA REPINA, THE ARTIST’S DAUGHTER;142
4.8;DRAGONFLY. PORTRAIT OF VERA REPINA, THE ARTIST’S DAUGHTER;145
4.9;PORTRAIT OF YURI REPIN, SON OF THE ARTIST;146
4.10;PORTRAIT OF THE COMPOSER MODEST MUSSORGSKY;149
4.11;PORTRAIT OF PAVEL TRETYAKOV, FOUNDER OF THE TRETYAKOV GALLERY;150
4.12;PORTRAIT OF THE ACTRESS PELAGEYA STREPETOVA;153
4.13;PORTRAIT OF DMITRI MENDELEEV;154
4.14;PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST GRIGORIY MYASOYEDOV;157
4.15;LEO TOLSTOY ASA PLOUGHMAN ON A FIELD;158
4.16;LEO TOLSTOY AS A PLOUGHMAN ON A FIELD;158
4.17;PORTRAIT OF ANTON RUBINSTEIN;161
4.18;A NUN;162
4.19;PORTRAIT OF SOPHIA DRAGOMIROVA;165
4.20;PORTRAIT OF BARONESS VARVARA IKSKUL VON HILDENBANDT;166
4.21;UNEXPECTED RETURN;169
4.22;STONE GUEST. DON JUAN AND DONNA ANNA;170
4.23;PORTRAIT OF K. POBEDONOSTSEV (STUDY FOR THE CEREMONIAL MEETINGOF THE STATE COUNCIL);173
4.24;PORTRAIT OF THE NEUROLOGIST VLADIMIR BEKHTEREV;174
4.25;PORTRAIT OF THE WRITER LEONID ANDREYEV ON A PLEASURE BOAT;177
4.26;SELF-PORTRAIT;178
5;Biography;181
6;Notes;193
7;Index;194