Tag Archives: Ilya Repin

Barge-Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

My blog today continues, as promised, with the Social Realism Movement in art.  Social Realism is a very broad term for painting or literature that comments on contemporary social political or economic conditions, usually from a left-wing viewpoint, in a … Continue reading →

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Religious Procession in Kursk Province by Ilya Repin

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

Ilya Efimovich Repin was born in 1844 in the town of Chuhuiv, now part of eastern Ukraine.  His parents were a family of military settlers.  Military Settlements in thise days were places which allowed the combination of military service and … Continue reading →

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