Author: Ankele, Daniel

Binding: Kindle Edition

Format: Kindle eBook

Number Of Pages: 307

Release Date: 04-09-2011

Details: (Revised 2/2015 - 285+ Larger Realist Paintings with annotations formatted for Kindle HDX, HD, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets.)

ILYA REPIN Art Book contains 285+ HD Reproductions of portraits, landscapes, religious and genre scenes with annotations and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World, and is formatted for all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

BORN: August 5, 1844 in Chuguyev, Russian Empire.
DIED: September 29, 1930 in Kuokkala, Finland.

MOVEMENT: Realist

INTERESTING FACTS:
§ In 1866, Repin first studied with local icon painter Bunakov. He then studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
§ In 1871, Repin graduated. He was awarded a golden medal and the right to study in Europe at the expense of the Academy for his painting "Resurrection of Jair's Daughter".
§ From 1873-76, Repin traveled to Italy and Paris at the Academy’s expense. His exposure to the French Impressionists had a lasting effect on his use of color and light. Repin painted "Sadko" and became an academician of the Academy of Fine Arts for his work on this picture.
§ In 1874, Repin became a member of "The Itinerants", the Russian realist art group.
§ In 1878, Repin joined the “Association of Peredvizhniki Artists”. A free-thinking group that rebelled against the academic formalism of the Imperial Academy.
§ In 1882, the Repins moved to St. Petersburg. There Repin entered "The Itinerants" exhibition with his historical painting "Ivan the Terrible Killing His Son", painted in 1885.
§ In 1901, Repin worked on a picture commissioned by the government "Ceremonial Session of the State Council 1900".
§ In 1920, Finnish artists accepted Repin as an honorary member of the Finnish Artists Society. Ten years later, Repin died on September 29, 1930

Languages: English