What freedom!
1903 · oil on canvas
Dimensions (284.5 x 179 cm)
Collection: Art Whisperer
Ilya Yefimovich Repin, one of the greatest Russian artists, was born in Chuguyev in Kharkiv Guberniya on 24 July (5 August, new style) 1844 into the family of a Great Russian military veteran settled in the region. His first formal artistic training was at the local school for military topographers. Then he studied with a local iconographer. Even in his old age, he continued to astonish the public. In his mystifying and contradictory painting, What Freedom! (1903), with a young couple rejoicing on the shores of the iced-up Neva River, Repin expressed an ambivalent attitude to the new generation, one could call it “love-hostility.”
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What freedom! (1903) by Ilya Repin, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Ilya Repin
lya Yefimovich Repin (24 July 1844 – 29 September 1930) was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature.
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