Ilya Repin

“Skill is such that you can’t see the skill” Leo Tolstoy (about Ilya Repin). Repin (1844-1930) wrote "Barge haulers" when he was not yet 30. He has a long and fruitful life ahead of him. Masterpieces "Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan", "They did not wait" or "The Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish Sultan". But Barge Haulers will always be his first and main masterpiece. Remembering...

"Barge haulers on the Volga" by Repin. Why did the painting become iconic? Read completely "