Repin's paintings with titles, history of creation, plot

Ilya Efimovich Repin is a Russian portrait painter, master of everyday and historical scenes. Repin's paintings with names allow us to understand the portraits of the people he created. After all, some of the heroes of the paintings are known, and the surnames, the social status of others, allows one to know the name of the picture.

"Burlaki on the Volga" (1870-1873 gg.)

To this his monumental work the artist went for several years. Once, on the banks of the Neva, he saw barge haulers pulling a barge. Not far from this place the gentlemen walked in holiday dresses. The contrast was so great that the painter decided to convey on the canvas his impressions of what he had seen.

At first he wanted to build a plot on contrast - rich gentlemen and pulling out an unbearable burlaki burden. The master made many sketches. In the final version, Ilya Efimovich decided to capture the Volga River, along the shore of which there are tired barge haulers who are doing their hard work.

They pull straps that are tied to a barge. On the shoals the ship itself could not pass, so people dragged it this way. It can be seen that they receive very little for such work, since the clothes of burlaks have long been transformed into rags. The faces of people are black from sunburn and hard work.

Slightly dispel the sadness from contemplating the joyless life of burlak rainbow colors, which depicts the sky and the sea.

But not all Repin's paintings with names are so sad, illustrations for the fairy tale "Sadko" are more optimistic.

"Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom" (1876)

In 1871 the artist wrote a sketch for the fairy tale "Sadko", calling it "Woman with a dagger". It shows a proud eastern beauty in a half-profile. The girl has a national hat and clothes. Long dark hair falls on the shoulders. The girl holds the scabbard, she is tense and focused - at the slightest danger will get a dagger and will use it as a defense weapon.

In 1875-1876, other pictures of Repin appeared with names on the subject. In 1875 he created a sketch for the canvas "Sadko". But the faces of the girls living in the underwater kingdom are hardly distinguishable here. But on the finished picture even the smallest features of the faces of sea beauties are seen. The underwater king wanted to marry Sadko on one of them, and several hundred young adorers appeared before the young man.

The artist managed to convey even the gleams of water, reliably depict air bubbles. When considering this work of art, the viewer may think that he and the protagonist are in the underwater world.

"Beggar" (The Girl-Fisherman) (1874)

Creations of the great Russian painter can be seen in the Tretyakov Gallery, other museums of the country and the world. In order not to go so far, you can see the photos taken from the original paintings.

Repin realistically portrayed what he saw. On his canvases, the images of not only noble masters, but also people who have almost nothing left forever. Repin's paintings with names help to find out who these nineteenth-century inhabitants were.

The beggar girl, apparently, lived near the river and was a fisherman. From the history of writing this masterpiece it becomes clear that the child lived in the French city of Völ. The girl posed for artists and this earned her bread. According to Ilya Efimovich, it was not easy to draw, as the girl was twisted and constantly twisted. But in an hour the master was able to catch her thoughts, feelings, inner state.

The nature on the canvas is depicted as if lifeless paints, all attention is attracted to the child: eyelashes burned in the sun, eyebrows, hair, weather-beaten hands. Repin managed to convey even the smallest details of the beggar's clothes.

Many artists, art critics argue that, writing this picture, Repin first took place as the greatest portraitist.

Repin's paintings (photo) with titles

However, the artist continues to work in different genres. In the same year, there are other well-known paintings by Repin with titles: "Portrait of Elizaveta Mamontova", "Portrait of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev", "Ukrainka at the fence", as well as a small canvas "The Road through the Narrow Passage" and other canvases.

In the painting "The Road Through a Narrow Passage" the author depicted a narrow path, and on both sides of the picturesque nature of the hills - bright flowers against the background of green grass.

In Paris

Living in France, experienced the impulse of creative inspiration Ilya Repin. Pictures with the names that he wrote here are not only "Nischenka" and "Sadko in the underwater kingdom", but also "The Road to Montmartre in Paris", "Paris Cafe" and others.

In the Paris Cafe (1875) we see richly and stylishly dressed people. If you look at the picture of a beggar girl in parallel, the contrast will be significant. In the cafe ladies and men eat deliciously, drink, rest.

In the foreground is a well-groomed woman in a black dress. It can be seen that she is very confident in herself, because she knows about her attractiveness. At the next table a man sits, he looked so much at the beauty that he did not heed the requests of his daughter. Perhaps, only this girl, sitting next to her, a nurse with a red ribbon in her hair and a young man reading a newspaper, real, living faces. All the rest are like wax figures who do not have genuine human feelings.

"We did not wait"

But a lot of emotions can be seen on the canvas, created by the painter in 1884-1888. Speaking of what paintings Repin has with the names, known to all, it is impossible not to remember this.

First, the artist wanted to convey the moment of return to the family from the study of the girl-student. This version, written in 1883, also remained, the canvas is of a small size.

In 1884, the artist wrote the main version of the picture. It depicts an exile who returned to his family. An elderly woman in the foreground rose from her chair to meet her son. The boy sitting at the table rejoiced at the arrival of his father. The girl looks warily, because she did not recognize her dad in this man. Perhaps she was still very young when her father was exiled to Siberia, so she forgot the features of his face. The woman at the piano, apparently the wife of the arranger, looks at him in surprise and joy.

The picture is filled with air and light, which emphasize its positive content. Like other canvases of the great Repin, she very realistically and truthfully conveys all that is happening.