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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this week Inspiration  from Artists Thread the featuring artists this week are : Ilya Repin and Elaine de Kooning .  Robert will open with his introduction to Ilya Repin ,  on Wednesday lunchtime Martin will introduce his chosen artist Elaine de Kooning . Have  a good week and I hope you enjoy the artwork selected. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Ilya Repin - 1844 - 1930 - was a Ukranian-Russian artist famous for his portraits, and some landscapes of the Russian countryside and scenes from Russian history. Like most broadly Russian born artists - at that time, Ukraine was a Russian province - he was trained in classical technique which developed almost independently from European oil painting, owing very little to, for example, Impressionism.  He supported the revolution against Tsarist Russia, but not the barbarities of Bolshevism.  Nonetheless, he was able to flourish beyond the immediate revolutionary period into the post Bolshevik seizure of the revolution, and painted telling portraits of leading figures in Russian literature and music - e.g. Tolstoy, to whom he became very close, Mussorgsky, Borodin and many others.  He's very easy to find via Google but I'll try - with the limitations of my technological knowledge!  - to show some of his paintings.  Others might have more success than I'm likely to achieve...
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you for your introduction to this artist Robert I will have a closer look at his work later in the day . You have posted some good examples of his work. 
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A supremely gifted artist, whose major paintings are the 'history' paintings so loved in the late 19th century. Below...a religious procession in Kursk... One of his most famous paintings...Boatmen on the Volga.... A rather startling portrait of Princess Sophia...there'll be a story behind this that I don't know... A far happier painting of people having fun in the snow... And last, a sublime drawing... This artist produced exceptional work.  On a personal note, I have mixed feelings about 'history' paintings, the skill is beyond question but somehow they leave me cold.  I much prefer the last three paintings I've posted, and the portraits in Robert's post.

Norrette Moore

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Thanks Robert a broad selection, some I'd never seen before.  Like the windy day picture of a couple, very expressive. I just checked, Mussorgsky's red nose was not due to the cold weather! 
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Quite a range of subjects, I particularly liked Robert's lady on a bridge.  I suppose his style would be broadly categorised as 'realistic'.   I came across this one 'Sadko and the Underwater Kingdom' which is a very 'unreal' topic approached in a very realistic way.  I do like his use of light.

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What a wonderful artist. I found this that I like, the expressions on their faces certainly tell a story. The title is The Unexpected Visitor or just Unexpected, there seem to be different options. I also like Lewis selection but Princess Sophia, well you wouldn’t want her as your pub landlady!! 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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"They didn't expect him" represents the story of a young man returned from exile - which was the Tsarist system's way of dealing with dissidents.  If in doubt, send 'em away to Siberia or other remote area, where they can't influence people.  They did the same to Lenin - having hanged his elder brother.  
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