Ilya Repin was a famous Russian artist from the 19th and 20th century. Repin was a key figure in realism painting and his best paintings included Religious Procession in Kursk Province, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan, Barge Haulers on the Volga, St Nicholas of Myra in Lycia, Ceremonial session of the State Council, Pushkin Reciting His Poem Before Old Derzhavin, Portrait of Leo Tolstoy and Emperor Nicholas II.
The painting of Ivan the Terrible with his dying son is an intensive work combining the madness and aggression of the father against the calmness and quietness of the dying sibling. Religious Procession in Kursk Province was also another of his best paintings. It captured a complex scene of Russian social classes and tensions during a religious procession. It was another of Repin's political paintings where he would try to address the social situations in his native Ukraine and what is now Russia.The best paintings of Repin can now be found in State Russian Museum, St Petersburg and the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Visual Graphic Arts
In conclusion, Ilya Repin is an important Russian realism artist who preferred to address political issues within his country of the time and helped him to become the chosen artist for many high ranking officials of the time. Repin was also a sculptor during his career, but it is his paintings which have retained the most fame.
Russian art fans still like to buy his best paintings as reproductions and the complexity and history in them remains much loved. Repin is now seen as a progressive, bold artist both in his style and his subjects and has been copied by "Socialist Realist" artists in the USSR. Repin is followed by some with a kind of cultist passion. Repin remains alongside Caillebotte as one of the best known realism artists.
Repin Paintings
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