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

It is very difficult to include in the compressed text the 86 years that Ilya Yefimovich Repin has lived tensely. A short biography can only outline the main milestones of his complex life, saturated with creative ups and failures. Masterpieces that portrayed genuine life were very numerous. Two attempts to create a family life, one unrequited love, friendship with outstanding people of his time and tireless work is all that fell to the lot of a man like Repin. The biography is short (photo for 30 years before his death shows a friendly man 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 the 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 a small Ilyusha painted a picture of the alphabet with watercolor, and she came to life. From that time the child did not know rest. 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 artists. And, collecting all the money that he earned by writing icons, went to the capital. Thus ended the childhood, when Repin left his native places . The biography briefly says that the youthful hope began.

In Petersburg

It was taken 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, moving to a half-starved existence, and soon his dream came true - he was already at the Academy. The first to notice him was V. Polenov, as well as the harsh critic V. Stasov, whom Ilya Repin would later be friends with all his life. After 8 years he graduated from the Academy with a gold medal, even got married, got children and together with his family, as a pensioner of the Academy, went to Europe. For the work "Sadko", written in Paris, received the title of academician Repin. The biography of the short tells that he was interested in painting E. Manet.

Historical pictures

The first on his return home was written not too successful "Tsarevna Sophia".

Much later, he will write the work "Ivan the Terrible and His Son" by Ilya Repin. Biography of the artist shows that the interest in this topic about love, power and revenge originated under the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov music and with a deep study of history.

"We did not wait"

The canvas depicts the unexpected return of the revolutionary from exile. Very carefully Ilya Efimovich tried to convey the expression of faces. He often copied them. And the embarrassment of the exile, and the confusion of the mother, who had never expected to see her son, and the rapture of her wife and children. On a light cozy, home and home background is the dark figure of a convict, crushed by life. But he waits and hopes that he will be accepted and forgiven.

In other words - in the modern spirit I read the parable of Epiphany Repin. The artist's biography should To emphasize that this work was lengthy and persistent, but the painter achieved the effect he aspired to.

Repin-teacher

Since 1894 Repin taught at the Academy. As his contemporaries wrote, he was engaged in, the teacher was bad, but the teacher is a great one. Materially, he tried to help the needy and find orders for them. In his studio at different times he studied F. Malyavin, B. Kustodiev, I. Bilibin, V. Serov. In the years of the first revolution, Repin applied to leave the Academy, but finally he ceased his pedagogical activity 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 poor. Repin, after renting an apartment, left the Academy and left for Yasnaya Polyana.

Portraits of Repin

Not all of them are equally successful, but the "Portrait of M. P. Mussorgsky", written on the eve of the death of the composer, differs with great psychology. It means a lot for fans of painting "The Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov", who practically did not pose for anyone.

Magnificent created by him female images of Eleonora Duse, Elizaveta Zvantseva, her daughters, the second wife of the writer N. Nordman-Severskaya. It was she who, dying of tuberculosis, left the artist with her estate "Penates", in which Repin spent the last thirty years of his life. Stand out are the portraits of Leo Tolstoy, whom he met as far back as the 1870s. Repin wrote four very famous portraits of the great writer, and there remained a lot of sketches and sketches.

Repin: biography and creativity in brief

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