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1. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of the artist Serov”The first meeting of artists Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov happened when Serov was not even seven years old. When Valentine’s father, a famous musician, passed away, Repin came to his funeral. A year later, Valentin began drawing at Repin’s workshop. Subsequently, Repin greatly appreciated Serov’s talent as a painter, noting also his irrepressible hard […]...
2. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of V. V. Stasov”Repin, talking in high artistic circles, met a famous art critic, art critic Stasov, who over time became a good friend to him. They often travel together. One day, together with Stasov, Repin arrives in Dresden, where they stay at a local hotel. Here, in the room, the artist writes a masterpiece “Portrait of V. […]...
3. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Belarusian”The great Russian painter Ilya Repin always insistently sought new methods and ideas that made his work more complete and deep. It is believed that he had a set of favorite objects and, accordingly, a limited circle of people whose portraits he painted. The picture “Belarusian” Repin wrote in 1892. Possessing a deep sense of […]...
4. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Self-portrait”Ilya Repin is a famous Russian artist. His creative heritage belongs to a large number of portraits. Including he wrote and self-portraits. Among them there are ingenious and famous, there are unrecognized ones. All these works give viewers a unique chance to see Repin through his eyes, to trace the path of his change in […]...
5. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “On the sod bench”The greatness of Repin as an artist is irrefutable and does not require proof. The list of paintings by the master can be listed endlessly – it is so huge. In 1876, a large variety of plots in the artist’s personal collection was supplemented with one small, but very remarkable painting “On the Sod Bed”. […]...
6. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Black Woman”The Negro Woman, which was so different from Repin’s usual letter form, was created in Paris under the influence of the works of the famous Fortuny, whom the author adored. Repin did not try to imitate his idol, but at the same time, he stretched himself in his art because of the inaccessibility of the […]...
7. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of Tolstoy”For many years, Tolstoy and Repin were tied by a gentle warm friendship, despite the fact that on many issues they did not agree completely and often heatedly argued, causing others to feel that they were quarreling. In fact, when encountering points of view, friends found a common solution, got to know each other better, […]...
8. Description of the painting by Ilya RepinThis picture was an etude for a large canvas “The Procession of the Cross in the Kursk Province”, Repin wanted to cover all of Russia, and he succeeded. Here we see two simple women. They make pilgrimages. It can be assumed that they are going to pilgrims for a long time and very tired. They […]...
9. Description of the painting by Valentin Serov “Portrait of Repin”An outstanding artist of his time and his generation, Valentin Serov lived and worked in the XIX-XX centuries. During his work, he wrote a lot of different pictures, but at first Serov was engaged in writing portraits and paintings to order. At the expense of his work on order, he became one of the most […]...
10. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “A man with an evil eye”“A man with an evil eye” refers to the Chuguev period of creation of the author. Everything in Chuguev predisposed Repin to work. Inspiration, which was born here, gave life to many truly great canvases of that time. Repin, many called the mystical artist. He worked like a god, forgetting everything during his work. According […]...
11. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Meeting of the State Council”In 1901, the famous painter Ilya Repin accepted a large state order to write the painting “The ceremonial meeting of the State Council on May 7, 1901”. This work was timed to the centenary of the founding of the State Council. After two years of work, a huge canvas measuring 400 × 877 cm was […]...
12. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of Pisemsky”It is known that during his time of work, the genre of the portrait of Repin was addressed an incredible number of times. And what is most interesting is that each of them has certainly been crowned with success. Poor or rich, old or young, each person looks his own original and unique. Repin was […]...
13. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of Tretyakov”Repin managed to create an incredibly simple and at the same time a deep rub. We see Tretyakov, who founded the famous painting gallery. The artist conveyed the depth and at the same time the complexity of the character of this person. In the dark eyes of Tretyakov, sadness lurks. His beard is well-groomed, his […]...
14. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “Star Hero”Throughout his life, Roerich devoted himself to the search for an ideal world, studying the beauty of the Universe through sacred treatises of various beliefs. His teachers were the monks of Tibet, India and Asia. After spending more than a decade in search of higher intelligence, he makes sketches on the topic of the relationship […]...
15. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Calvary”Throughout his life Repin repeatedly turned to religious topics. “Golgotha” is a picture, literally suffered by the artist, whose design he had been bearing for many years. Reading the book of Repin’s memoirs, one can understand how much the author was experiencing this plot, letting it through his heart. He felt, heard the weeping and […]...
16. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Burlak”The painting “Burlak” (1870) is one of the works that preceded the appearance of the large-scale and famous canvas by Ilya Repin “Burlaks on the Volga”, a portrait of Canina’s haulers. For the first time, the artist became interested in the theme of the burlak trade in Petersburg, when, during one of the out-of-town walks […]...
17. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “In the sun”The year 1900 was marked for Ilya Repin by a secondary marriage. His chosen one was the daughter of Admiral, writer Natalia Nordman-Severova, in whose name he acquired an estate in the village of Kuokkala, called “Penaty” At the same time, a misfortune happened, for the painter just a murderous one, Repin’s right hand refused, […]...
18. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Summer Landscape” (On the bridge)The painting was painted by Repin in 1879. On this canvas, man and nature are connected. Such creations are most valuable. Abramtsevo was depicted by many artists, but only in Repin it is so touching and genuinely lyrical. We see the park on one of the summer days. There are many old trees that merge […]...
19. Description of the painting by Ivan Repin “Portrait of Dmitry Mendeleev”Repin is a Russian artist who preferred porter to all other genres, as well as a depiction of historical and everyday scenes reflecting the spirit of the era – the past or the modern master. Memoirist, rector of the Academy of Arts. Among his students were many talented painters, especially emphasize his contribution to the […]...
20. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of Anton Rubinstein”The painter Ilya Repin was known as a great music lover. He subtly felt the harmony of sounds, admired the musicians, and made close friendship with them. Anton Rubinstein was among the comrades of the Russian artist from the music community. And Repin could not express his recognition of the talent of this pianist and […]...
21. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Resurrection of the daughter of Jairus”The picture was painted by the artist in 1871. This canvas is the first of the large-scale works of young Repin. This interpretation of the plot of the Gospel. We see a situation where Jesus Christ comes to the house where the girl died. The artist masterfully conveyed an unusual surprise and fright of the […]...
22. Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov “Silence”1903 – the year of writing “Silence”. The year when Nesterov, who had long sought inspiration and images for a new picture, which was to be called “Holy Russia,” finally found what he was looking for. His discovery was a small monastery in the Siberian wilderness – the Solovki monastery. Life in it was simple […]...
23. Description of the painting by Philip Malyavina “Laughter”This work is interesting for its unusual history. Its author is Philip Andreevich Malyavin, born in 1869. Since childhood, the boy loved to draw and sculpt clay figures, giving them away to friends. Since he grew up in a poor peasant family, his parents could not allow him to seriously engage in creative work. Neighbors […]...
24. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of Victor Vasnetsov”Repin left a great legacy as his excellent work. These include portraiture of the artist. Graphic sketches preserved quite a lot. Ilya Efremovich liked to sketch everything that attracted his attention. Repin met Vasnetsov as an art academy student. Two comrades were the exact opposite of each other. Different in character and manner of drawing […]...
25. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Tsarevna Sofya in the Novodevichy Convent”The painting “The Princess Sophia in the Novodevichy Monastery” was the first work of I. Repin on historical topics. It was written in 1879. The plot is based on real events of 1698, when a rebellion was raised against Peter I. It turned out that Sofya Alekseevna, the elder sister of the ruler, was to […]...
26. Description of the painting by Mikhail Nesterov “Riders”“Riders” – a relatively little-known picture of M. V. Nesterov. Until recently, the picture remained unknown (from the available images it can be judged that it was stored in a folded position). Perhaps the picture is a sketch for the unwritten large canvas. This can be judged by some freedom of drawing and non-prescribing of […]...
27. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Paris Cafe”The truly Russian artist I. Ye. Repin shows us his vision of French life on the canvas of 1875 “The Paris Cafe”. Two years earlier, he received from the Academy the right to travel abroad to further study the craft of painting. Upon arrival in the capital of France, Repin was not impressed with the […]...
28. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Portrait of I. N. Kramsky”In this work, we see a portrait of the famous Russian painter Ivan Nikolaevich Kramsky. It always raises many questions, as one artist allowed to paint his portrait to another artist. But Repin and Kramsky were bound by long friendships, so in this work we see, literally, a piece of Repin’s soul, his feelings for […]...
29. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Rest”Ilya Efimovich Repin is one of the Russian writers who tried his best to express realism in his works. Collectors were fond of works on a revolutionary theme; it seemed that the painter wanted to show the key vital position of the great commanders. But a special masterpiece, which struck with its purity and ease, […]...
30. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Sadko”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 work immediately received the highest rating. The painting was purchased for his collection by Alexander the Third, the future emperor. Repin himself for his skill […]...
31. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “What a space!”As the artist himself admits, a passing impression served as the vital material for this picture. One day, while in Penaty, in his estate, Repin saw how a young couple – a pretty girl and a high school student – was taken by the sea wave by surprise. The girl somehow tried to defend herself […]...
32. Description of the painting by Victor Vasnetsov “Guslar”Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich – an outstanding Russian painter, who became the founder of the national-romantic version of Russian Art Nouveau. Throughout his life, he sought, through his creations, to convey and show the beauty of his Homeland and the people who lived there: simple workers and peasants. The painting “Guslary Viktor Vasnetsov wrote in 1899. […]...
33. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Denial of confession”“Denial of Confession” was inspired by a poem called “Last Confession” and was published in an underground magazine where Repin read it. After long and painful attempts to outline a composition, to depict an excellent illustration, Repin departed from illustrativeness and turned to his own interpretation of the plot. In the poem, the priest is […]...
34. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Manifestation”Ilya Repin is a great Russian artist. He is well known to the public from school, but very few people know about such work as the “Manifestation of October 17, 1905”. The artist painted the picture in 1907, in response to the manifesto of Nicholas II of October 17, 1905. Repin himself spoke about his […]...
35. Description of the painting by Vasily Perov “Plach Yaroslavna”This picture Repin created one of the last, it bears a certain imprint of the fact that the talent of the painter, unfortunately, is fading away. The master created this canvas when he was already very sick. The drawing is a bit inaccurate, the pose is quite deliberate, in the pathetics the painfulness of its […]...
36. Description of the painting by Matias Grünewald “The isgenheim altar”Matthias Grunewald, a German by birth, the last representative of the northern Gothic in painting, who created several masterpieces in his short life (perhaps there were many more paintings, but very few of them have survived to this day), Igenheim Altar was considered to be his main work. The work was ordered by monks from […]...
37. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Duel”The picture was painted in 1896. To date, the canvas is presented in the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery. Previously, the first version of the painting, which had the name “Sorry!” Was presented, in 1897 it was sold to an Italian woman in a private collection. In addition to it, there is also a sketch of the […]...
38. Description of the painting by Ilya Repin “Beggar”The canvas “Beggar” came out from under the brush of the artist in 1874. The picture was painted by a young Repin in Vel, in France. Cultivologists of the whole world, the painting is recognized as the best creation of the artist’s youth period. Despite the aggravated struggle of the State Tretyakov Gallery for the […]...
39. Description of the painting by Isaac Ilyich Levitan “Evening shadows”There are several landscape artists who amaze with their skill. Among them, a little isolated Levitan. This master out of under the brush just amazing landscapes of Central Russia. Some unprecedented beauty in the ordinary arises on his canvases. It would seem that a simple hollow between the forest and the field and this border […]...
40. Description of the painting by Nicholas Roerich “And we are not afraid”During his life, Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich created more than 7,000 paintings. From an early age the boy was attracted by the rich cultural heritage of Russia, but at the same time he was interested in the culture of the East. After graduating from the gymnasium, Nikolai entered both the law faculty of the University and […]...