*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING *** * TITLE: "Portrait of a man" * ARTISTS: Ilya Efimovich Repin * SIZE: 38x52 cm/'14.96x20.47 inches' * MEDIUM: paper on cardboard * HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection * CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product
About the artist: Ilya Efimovich Repin (July 24 [August 5] 1844, Chuguev, Russian Empire - September 29, 1930, Kuokkala, Finland) [1] - Russian [2] 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 was able to cover all aspects of modernity, touch upon topics of concern to the public, and vividly reacted 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.
Repin's creativity flourished in 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 Penate 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 famous artists: B.M. Kustodiev, I.E. Grabar, I.S.Kulikov, F.A.Malyavin, A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, N.I. Feshin, V.A. Serov.
