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Barge Haulers on the Volga 1873
Painted by Russian artist Ilya Repin who was a follower of the Wanderers group and lived for many years with his family at Abramtsevo after Mamontov and his wife invited Repin to settle there.
to quote from Camilla Gray..... "'Mamontov's circle, as this colony of artists came to be called, was drawn together by the common determination to create a new Russian culture. It grew out of a group of artists who declared their secession from the Academy of Art in 1863. The thirteen artists who made this heroic gesture of apparent economic suicide were inspired by the idea of bringing art to the people. They called themselves 'the Wanderers' because they thought to put their ideas into practice by taking traveling exhibitions throughout the countryside. These artists sought to make their art "useful to the people."
Not surprising that this became the official Soviet view of art after the revolution. The officials actually referred to the Wanders as the ideal art direction. But there were others whose work took an entirely different direction while involved with Abramtsevo and Vrubel was one of them.
There are excellent photographs on Flickr showing this and other Russian paintings in their museum setting, many at the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Barge Haulers on the Volga 1873
Painted by Russian artist Ilya Repin who was a follower of the Wanderers group and lived for many years with his family at Abramtsevo after Mamontov and his wife invited Repin to settle there.
to quote from Camilla Gray..... "'Mamontov's circle, as this colony of artists came to be called, was drawn together by the common determination to create a new Russian culture. It grew out of a group of artists who declared their secession from the Academy of Art in 1863. The thirteen artists who made this heroic gesture of apparent economic suicide were inspired by the idea of bringing art to the people. They called themselves 'the Wanderers' because they thought to put their ideas into practice by taking traveling exhibitions throughout the countryside. These artists sought to make their art "useful to the people."
Not surprising that this became the official Soviet view of art after the revolution. The officials actually referred to the Wanders as the ideal art direction. But there were others whose work took an entirely different direction while involved with Abramtsevo and Vrubel was one of them.
There are excellent photographs on Flickr showing this and other Russian paintings in their museum setting, many at the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow, Russia.