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They Did Not Expect Him, by Repin
Painting done in 1884 by Ilya Repin and executed while living at Abramtsevo. He belonged to the second generation of what was termed nationalist Russian painters, but his work exemplifies the ideals of the early pioneers, the Wanderers.
"After the crude propaganda style of the men of the sixties, a movement of intellectual nationalism arose which valued a painting for its broad idea and poster-like style of expression in technique and an intellectual anonymity was sought. Even the great talent of Repin was diluted in this dead atmosphere; the lack of artistic intensity gave to his work a characterless form." I think written by Vrubel's biographer S. Yaremich 1911.
They Did Not Expect Him, by Repin
Painting done in 1884 by Ilya Repin and executed while living at Abramtsevo. He belonged to the second generation of what was termed nationalist Russian painters, but his work exemplifies the ideals of the early pioneers, the Wanderers.
"After the crude propaganda style of the men of the sixties, a movement of intellectual nationalism arose which valued a painting for its broad idea and poster-like style of expression in technique and an intellectual anonymity was sought. Even the great talent of Repin was diluted in this dead atmosphere; the lack of artistic intensity gave to his work a characterless form." I think written by Vrubel's biographer S. Yaremich 1911.