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Ilyá Yefímovich Répin (Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин) (August 5 1844 (Julian calendar: July 24) – September 29 1930) was a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school. His realistic works often expressed great psychological depth and exposed the contradictions of the existing social order. Beginning in the mid-1920s, a Repin cult was established in the Soviet Union and he was held up as a model "progressive" and "realist" to be imitated by "Socialist Realist" artists in the USSR.
Life and Work
Repin was born in the town of Chuguev near Kharkov in the heart of the historical region called Sloboda Ukraine. (Today, it is located in the eastern part of the independent Ukrainian state.) His father was a Russian military settler. In 1866, after apprenticeship with a local icon painter and preliminary study of portrait painting, he went to Saint Petersburg and was shortly admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts as a student. From 1873 to 1876 on the Academy's allowance, Repin sojourned in Italy and lived in Paris where he was exposed to French impressionist painting, which had a lasting effect upon his use of light and colour. Nevertheless, his style was to remain closer to that of the old European masters, especially Rembrandt, and he never became an impressionist himself. Throughout his career, he was drawn to the common people from which he himself traced his origins and he frequently painted country folk, both Ukrainian and Russian, though in later years he also painted members of the Imperial Russian elite including both the intelligentsia and the aristocracy including even the Tsar, Nicholas II himself.
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