Repin: the biography is short and concise. Description of some works

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

It is very difficult to fit into a concise text 86 years that Ilya Efimovich Repin lived hard. A brief biography can only outline with a dotted line the main milestones of his complex life, full of both creative ups and downs. There were a lot of masterpieces that reflected true life. Two attempts to create a family life, one unrequited love, friendship with outstanding people of his time and tireless work - this is all that fell to the lot of such a person as Repin. A short biography (a photo from 30 years before his death shows a friendly person with funny eyes) will be outlined below.

Childhood and youth

Ilya Repin was born in Ukraine in 1844 and loved his native land all his life. In the family of a soldier, the most educated was the mother, who taught the children, reading to them A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, V. Zhukovsky. A cousin, in front of little Ilyusha, painted a picture from the alphabet with watercolors, and she came to life. From that time on, the child did not know peace. And when he grew up, he nailed to the artel of icon painters, then he heard that in St. Petersburg there is an Academy where they teach to become artists. And having collected all the money thathe earned by painting icons, went to the capital. Thus ended childhood, when Repin left his native place. A brief biography says that a hopeful youth began.

In St. Petersburg

He was unkindly received by the capital in 1863. In the Academy, since he was not familiar with the technique of drawing, he was not accepted. But Repin went to the School of Drawing, switching to a half-starved existence, and soon his dream came true - he is already studying at the Academy. The first to notice him was V. Polenov, as well as the harsh critic V. Stasov, with whom Ilya Repin would later be friends all his life. After 8 years, he graduated from the Academy with a gold medal, even got married, had children, and together with his family, as a pensioner of the Academy, went to Europe. For the work "Sadko", written in Paris, he received the title of academician Repin. A brief biography tells that there he became interested in painting by E. Manet.

Historical paintings

The first to be written upon returning home was the not-too-successful "Princess Sophia".

Much later Ilya Repin will write the work "Ivan the Terrible and his son". The artist's biography shows that interest in this theme of love, power and revenge was born under the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov's music and with a deep study of history.

We didn't expect

The canvas depicts the unexpected return of a revolutionary from exile. Ilya Efimovich tried very carefully to convey the expression on their faces. He rewrote them frequently. And the embarrassment of the exile, and the embarrassment of the mother, who never expected to see her son again, and the delight of the wife andchildren. Against a light, cozy, homely and native background stands the dark figure of a convict crushed by life. But he waits and hopes that he will be accepted and forgiven.

In other words, I read the gospel parable by Repin in a modern spirit. The artist's biography should emphasize that this work was long and hard, but the painter achieved the effect he aspired to.

Repin-teacher

Since 1894, Repin taught at the Academy. As contemporaries who studied with him wrote, he was a bad teacher, but a great teacher. Financially, he tried to help those in need and find orders for them. F. Malyavin, B. Kustodiev, I. Bilibin, V. Serov studied at his workshop at different times. During the years of the first revolution, Repin filed a petition to leave the Academy, but he finally stopped his teaching activities in 1907. The reason was the dissatisfaction of some students with the fact that teachers live in state-owned huge apartments, and their wards are in poverty. Repin, having rented an apartment, left the Academy and went to Yasnaya Polyana.

Repin portraits

Not all of them are equally successful, but "Portrait of MP Mussorgsky", written on the eve of the composer's death, is distinguished by great psychologism. The “Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov” means a lot to art lovers, who has hardly posed for anyone.

The female images he created of Eleonora Duse, Elizaveta Zvantseva, his daughters, the second wife of the writer N. Nordman-Severskaya are magnificent. She is the one dyingtuberculosis, left the artist as a legacy her estate "Penates", in which Repin spent the last thirty years of his life. The portraits of Leo Tolstoy, whom he met back in the 1870s, stand apart. Repin painted four very famous portraits of the great writer, and left a lot of sketches and sketches.

Repin: biography and creativity briefly

Dry and lean Ilya Repin in the last years of his life did a lot of literary work. He wrote the book Far Near. In it, he expressed his thoughts and creative principles. He, as a painter, was primarily concerned not with aesthetic research, but with writing with the blood of the heart, the truthfulness of the image without any falsehood. The great artist died in 1930 and was buried in his "Penates" in Finland. The biography, given extremely briefly, does not give a complete picture of the lively, cheerful and good-natured character of the master, despite the fact that his life was always accompanied by personal problems.