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This extraordinary artist, is undoubtedly one of the greatest painters (masters) in the world that existed in the late nineteenth and early S. XX. His exuberant realism and particularity of showing the emotions of Slavic peoples, especially the Russians, has been a hallmark and other determinants give this artist also delved into the art of the chisel and hammer- vulgaris sculpture - Born Cossack 1844 in the region of Sloboda, son of a Cossack landowner allowed to have a life devoted to painting, from "very small" samples always gave her innate talent and she was a teenager he was apprenticed as a painter of icons, images sacred painted in oil, it said for those who believe that misguided Repin painted the cartoons of computer monitors or computers - rear entrance mind Imperial Academy of Arts where he becaron for their artistic qualities to go to Italy and France , back her portrait skills allowed him to hobnob with the aristocracy and wealthy people of the Russian imperial society and politics, got to be a skilled portraitist to paint the very point of Tsar Nicolas II , musician Modest Músorgky , the scientist Dimitri Mendeleev , the writer Leon Tolstoy , just to name a few personalities who posed for him.
His genius and work are undeniable, and installed the Bolsheviks to power, encouraged - or forced rather - the new Soviet painters to be guided by realism Repin teacher to portray an idealized society's burgeoning Bolshevik this in turn refuse to be part of the new official art socialist, saying his senility and retired to a farm after the triumph of the Reds in October 1917 the land where his ranch became part of Finland. He died in 1930 being recognized during his lifetime as a master.
Ilya Repin this in my personal opinion at the height of painters like Lionel Noel, Jean-Léon Gérôme. Alma Tadema Lawrece or Alexander Canabel , exalted painters are a delight for the eyes and spirit. No more words to add here 's a small sample of the master Repin.