Ilya Repin: Difference between revisions

===Creativity===

[[File:Ilya Efimovich Repin in the Photographers studio Rentz and Schrader.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Repin by Rentz and Schrader, 1900]]

 

Repin had favorite subjects, and a limited circle of people whose portraits he painted. But he had a deep sense of purpose in his aesthetics, and had the great artistic gift to sense the spirit of the age and its reflection in the lives and characters of individuals.{{sfn|Sternine|Kirillina|2011|p=13}} Repin's search for truth and for an ideal led him various directions artistically, influenced by aspects of hidden social and spiritual experiences and national culture. Like most Russian realists of his times, Repin often based his works on dramatic conflicts rooted in reality, drawn from contemporary life or history. He also used mythological images with a strong sense of purpose. Some of his religious paintings are among his greatest.{{sfn|Sternine|Kirillina|2011|p=14}}