His First (And Best) Realist Painting
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2023
- Ilya Repin's first realist painting is an unforgettable work once you pause and look at it for a bit. Join us in this short analysis of Repin's masterpiece.
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I also love the worker partially smiling behind the young guy wearing his hat. It's as though it's someone using every material process for an advantage and even going so far as to stand behind the young guy to take a break since the young guy had the most slack. I can also see on his belt for the boat you see some type of fabric cushioning his chest unlike the others.
There is a song about this
@@Bandog23 "The Song of the Volga Boatmen." The most miserable and oppressive of all slave songs.
Repin was a real one
The realest
Repping that realism
For real
I saw this in St. Petersburg, during my first visit to Russia, in 1991. It is an enormous painting. The figures are practically life size. I stared at it for maybe 20 minutes. It is a profound piece of art. Thanks for doing a video of this. Now consider doing one of Repin's strawberry-haired peasant girl. That, for me, is his most heart- breaking painting.
Do you know the name of that painting? I want to see it, but googling "repin strawberry haired peasant girl" isn't bringing up anything
@@popejaimieI can’t recognise this picture by this description either. But there is another heartbreaking girl. It’s “A beggar”(a pauper?). Check for it
@@popejaimie I have a book of Repin's painting but unfortunately it's not with me now. Let me get back to you. Watch this space.
@@katorzhnik Is it here at about 0:57?
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@@katorzhnik A man with an ancient tome ponders, we wait / With wisdom he seeks, our breaths we abate / In silence we stand / Awaiting command / As answers unfold, our fates they dictate.
Wow, what an incredibel painting. It's one of those paintings that just stays in your head.
Very empathetic video and the painting itself, always makes me tear up. It was painted in my hometown so hits close to home, no pun intended.
It’s also interesting to see it in the context in which it would’ve been displayed. Repin was one of Peredvizhniki - a group of artists that rebelled against Imperial Academy of Art in St P. They would not only travel around Russia to paint its landscapes and people (going against the hierarchy of genres, upon which the historical genre presided) but they would also bring exhibitions to the regions outside of the capital. Making art literally closer to people.
Thank you for the video
The kid is what stood out to me at first, all shinny and new. I definitely took the more pessimistic view, that instead of liberating himself, he was adjusting himself to a life of drudgery, day after day, year after year, until he was as worn out as the men around him. Such a hard hitting painting. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Crazy it was bought by Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. Its hard for me to imagine someone at the top of the pyramid wanting to look at this on the daily, though it was probably more of a 'soft' power move than an actual admiration of the art.
Yeah. I’m also surprised that The Canvas didn’t mention the possible religious interpretation: Notice, how he’s the only one of the barge haulers, with any visible religious symbols (a cross on a necklace). Even the ex-priest has none. Maybe he’s so fresh-looking, as a representation for his inner resolve, he gets from his faith. Or I’m just over-thinking this.
I’m very amateur when it comes to painters and whatnot, so obviously I have a small pool of famous artists I know. This painting def gives me some of Goya’s black painting vibes, the beauty and sadness at once. But the facial expressions are on another level
I live in St.Petersburg Russia and we have a lot of his paintings since he lived there. They are all so huge! Like they take up the whole wall! He has been my favourite artist/painter since my childhood!
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i like #3 - "Are you going to help, or just sit there and paint?"
For a moment, his expression gave me "you're late for work again, asshole. Now grab a strap."
soundtrack on these videos always go hard
Another good analysis of a striking painting. You just forgot to mention something that intensifies this work even more. It's size. The person in front is almost life-size and the exhausted man looking at the viewer in this scene makes us feel even more present in the moment captured by Repin.
This painting is moving, devastating, infuriating. A masterpiece!
This is a haunting image, and it says so much about poor people are seen. It was cheaper to pay 11-12 men to do this job then a few oxen. The oxen are more valuable than the human lives being ground down. I wish this image didn't still resonate and feel timely.
we just had to interpret this painting in my intensified History course where we currently cover the topic of the october revolution. We were able to choose between multiple pictures but this one immediatly cought my eye.
I feel like I learn more ab art and art history from this channel than I will in my actual class
Thanks!
Incredible, striking painting, but also one of your best videos yet. The pacing, the musical accompaniment, the analysis, it's all greatly done.
Il quadro di Repin " I Battelieri del Volga " fu ispirato da un'opera analoga del pittore macchialiolo Telemaco Signorini vista da Repin nel suo soggiorno toscano . L'opera di Signorini si intitola " L 'ALZAIA " e rappresenta degli uomini che trascinano controcorrente sull'Arno una barca . Questo quadro del pittore toscano era stato disperso ed è stato ritrovato recentemente . È stato subito acquistato da un antiquario per una somma considerevole
this painting REALLY struck me when it popped up in one of your other videos. absolutely incredible
You really make amazing films.
always loved repin
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This was a moving painting to hear, and a moving quote to pair it with
This is one of my favorite artworks. I do tend to uncomfortable paintings. Look at Pelez & his Paris poor, especially the children. Well done.
Metaphorically speaking, nothing has changed since then in Russia. It hurts so much. Can these labourers rise against those in power? Nope - Until another revolution comes. Everything goes in a circle. I told my 15 yo daughter a brief history of Great Britain. She says: there’s no way for us, mama. We haven’t got our Magna Carta in Russia. We won’t get out of all this shit.
Thank you for your kind heart and compassion to people of any nationality. You are a true man. Your videos are full of love to people.
Take your medicine.
What? Wasn’t that psycho buttboy, Lenin supposed to fix things? Oh that’s right he just wanted power for himself and his ilk so he could wield power against his own enemies. His problem with czarist Russia was: he wasn’t the one on top.
@@mdude625 Aren’t you forgetting that he only had time to rule for a few years, most of which was under post-revolution chaos and pizdec, as well, as he was also incredibly ill during much of that time, from the failed assassination attempt by Fanya Kaplan, and the long-brewing STD? Plus, he had a country the size of Russia/USSR (of 1917-1924), to rule. When he died, of course, Stalin took power (against Lenin’s will; as far, as we know, Lenin never named any heir apparent, as he didn’t feel anyone was competent), and he was straight-up Fascist; while most of us, watching and commenting (myself included) probably can’t even manage our own account balance, let alone a starving and wrecked country of 200 million people.
This video brought me to tears. Well done.
Same here 🥺. A masterpiece video of a masterpiece of art.
For me The young Barge Hauler interpret as a young generation (since he is the only youngster and how the lighting is brighter among the others) who simply just start his experience in adulthood, he is not comfy enough about it (how he reacts to his strap, strap is like responsibility) and yet it is the only thing that he can do.
Brilliant interpretation 💡😃👍🏻!
I don’t know why but this painting has haunted me - especially when I read up on what they were doing and why.
What a missed opportunity to use Volga Boat Men for the background music.
Such a work of art inspired by this work of art, itself even more pervasive and recurring in our modern culture.
You deserce every single view, like and patron you earn from this channel. It's simply amazing with the kniwledge and intelligrnce it shines to us, the simpletons.
Simple but powerful
fantastic video, dramatic music just made it perfect
This is an incredible painting. Thank you for introducing me to it!
Words are unable to describe how much I love this channel
What a magnificent video. Such quality.
1:41 - damn...dude is casually checking his phone
the music was awesome in this video, nice work
Oh thank you so much for this vidéo ❤ you have a beautiful voice 🙏🏻 blessing
You never miss bro
this was extra hard, great job!
Great video !
One could say it’s his realest painting
Goosebumps
I don't consider myself an anarchist in this moment of my life but i feel you Canvas, i do.
Great video
Well done
Great video as always! Just a remark: in Russian the singular form of "burlaki" is "burlak". Also a suggestion: "The Demon Seated" by Mikhail Vrubel.
Just a remark: Repin (or originally Ripyn) is Ukrainian, he probably spoke and definitely wrote letters in Ukrainian. It doesn't change much, because it's still pronounce "Burlak" and "Burlaky", but it's very important to mention
My thoughts, exactly 🎯.
Bravo!
Hi thank you very much.
i love the music you use in your videos, where do you get it from if i may ask?
Epidemic Sound (not sponsored)
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Thanks
Thank you Martin!!
I first noticed the one that staring at us this is terrifying
Just subscribed to the patreon! Do you share the music you use in your videos anywhere? It's always so striking!
Agreed, the music choices for these videos are consistently superb, but I too would like to see credit given somewhere to the composers/musicians. They are artists too!
To document the (Human Suffering) by painting?!
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I have never seen this painting before. What a terrible, sad scene. Very moving.
Great video! Does anybody knows what music is playing at the background? I think thats from bach but i couldn't recognize the name of it.
Well, actually Repin has a plenty of interesting and striking works. There is also a mystery surrounding his portrait paintings: many people he painted died soon after the portrait had been finished (Mussorgsky, Pisemsky, Louise de Mercy-Argenteau, Pirogov, Stolypin).
And it`s kinda interesting how Repin's most famous russia-themed paintings (the said Barge Haulers, Ivan the Terrible, Tsarevnya Sophia or Bolsheviks) are either grim or straight out creepy, while the ones depicting his homeland (like Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Vechornytsi or Gopak, his very last work) are hopeful and optimistic, with people just vibing and having a good time.
Yep, moskovia is not for happy people
@@Grez_v2 unless you're in the top class, living in Moscow or St Petersbourg
The happy ones are all the Cossack or Ukrainian ones, and yes, in his letters back to Tolstoy he said that he admired the Ukrainian spirit immensely. He talks at length about their independence and boldness and basically how they don’t take crap from anyone. And this was 1850! He would spend summers in Ukraine painting the countryside and the people and wrote that he didn’t want to come back to Moscow, although like most artists he had to make a living. Painting the czar was just another gig since he WAS a portrait painter for a living. I love the paintings of the revolutionaries plotting and getting busted. Wonderful.
real
really
Simply beautiful and disturbing at the same time.
does anyone know the piece playing on the background?
the name of the song playing in the background please
The discord link says is has "expired"?
What is the old man behind the young guy holding? At first glance I thought it was a pencil and a pad but on closer inspection it looks like an opened bag and is either taking out or putting something in it.
Did anyone else notice it ? Or, due to a childhood spent staring at too many "Hidden Pictures" pages of Highlight Magazine from the 80's, am I the only one?
Oh and great vid, man!
True 😮🤔.
I want to understand the one that appears to be holding a book or pad and a pencil. Is he writing? What is he writing?
I always loved this painting. It is the most accurate depiction of the Russia I read in a Dostoevsky. The Russia that influenced the musicians of the time like Tchaikovsky or Mussorgsky to write in a Russian style. It is Russia, the melancholic yet hopeful, a prophetic painting on what Russia will be in the decades following the painting. Repin captured the Russian spirit in this one. Thanks for this
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Nothing to tell us about the man behind the young man, the one with something in his hands. What is it? What's he doing?
Oh my goddess! JesisKrist! I can't believe that was an actual "job"! I am horrified by these faces, and their misery and pain. 😳
I'm angry this was a thing. This is an animal's job, but then again I would be angry if I saw an animal do it!
Look at delivery drivers sweating in UPS tracks.
@@MegadoseTheOutsiderArtist It's gonna be a thing again when the oil runs out. Serious question: How would you propose hauling the goods and the grains upstream? We live like kings, nowadays, and nobody imagines what it would really be like to live in a world without our easy access to the "energy slaves" fossil fuels have provided in this 200 year blip of human history.
This is serfdom. Serfs were slaves in russia. They were people born into slavery. Not a job.
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The whole "social question" in one picture. The unsettling, brutal reality. Whoever wants to know why socialist ideas (of any kind) where ever popular and appealing should look at this painting. The last sentence of the "Communist Manifesto" comes to mind (flawed as the whole text is, but this statement has an eternal truth in it): "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."
Show this painting to Bob iger from Disney, I think he will relate to your conclusion
Like Victorian prisoners breaking rocks, on the treadmill, these barge haulers have no choice only death, sickness or injury will release them.
Makes me think of Les Miserables
Together with Repin they make twelve !? one absolutely irrelevant note, but still interesting
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Ilya Repin was born in Ukraine, btw
Not only was he born in Ukraine but he extolled the Ukrainians in letters back to Moscow exuberantly.
Eventually Repin moved to what is now Finland with his vegan wife and freed all his serfs (slaves). He became a vegan until she died. He didn’t cook, so decided to eat chicken after that, not finding a vegan cook back then.
When friends came to visit they were horrified by the lack of servants! Even worse, no meat. There was an inn just past the edge of the property that was well stocked with meat to satisfy departing visitors. Repin had a table with drawers so guests could put their dirty plates in the drawers. Yuck.
dostoievski + repin... a rússia é arte, a rússia vai ganhar
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so russia's greatest prides are a pole and a ukrainian
And from this comes the "Song of the Volga Boatmen", known through out the world. I don't this these men are singing. I am surprised to one smoking a pipe and another loading his pipe! Odds are that is not tobacco but a local pain killing herb. Most are addictive, not that it would matter.
Imagine how little they were paid if it wasn't cheaper to just use horses. Paid worse than an animal
I like how you immediately come to nonsensical conclusion that it was cheaper, and not the actual one that it wasn't possible everywhere. Obviously horses were used wherever it was possible, it's way more cost-effective. Like, even if you just think about it for a moment, a horse would consume less food than the amount of men that are equivalent to a horse in terms of pulling strength.
@@ForOne814 And I like how instead of respectfully stating your opinion you try to offend me immediately in the first sentence.
@@bqgin ignorance and arrogance must be pointed out. I am not trying to be your friend, you know, being polite serves no functional purpose.
@@ForOne814 lmao daredevil dog meme
paid? these are most likely slaves, my friend.....
The fact that this "job" existed is disgusting. I don't want to even look up whether people still have to do this. Are there any paintings which depict the misery of workers on sugar plantations?
@TheCanvasArtHistory, do you feel like these barge haulers producing these videos about paintings as increasingly powerful generative AI emerges?
Russia has been an d still is a potent source of incredible suffering. Even though some excellent artists reflect it in their work, I am afraid, western world has no idea of the scale and depth of the misery.
Yeah, some of the regions of russian still don't have ANY gasification, like Buryatia, what interesting is that "Nord Stream" the pipe lays through region, and delivers gas to let's say Germany and US as whole, but not to russia itself
@@ukrainian_mf and your entire country has similar human development index as one of the least developed regions of Russia, lol.
@@ForOne814 Imagine claiming that and not being able to beat Ukraine. How is the 3 day "special military operation" going?
@@thrwwccnt5845 how's the two week "anti-terrorist operation" going? Oh, yeah, it's been 9 years since that one started.
@@ForOne814 that was a fast reply, you must be so butthurt. Anti-terrorist operation was going well, until russian military intervened. Now it will most likely end with Putin dead.
Here is an observation on the painting; what if the young man struggling to get the Harness on in his ignorance/ naiveté' is a Good Samaritan like that who Christ met on his way to crucifixion, and it is a statement that the Barge workers walk the path of Christs righteousness more so than any other in the work they do. That old Christian notion work purifies and the rich are curt due to their greed and laziness. .of course that is Lost down here in the states .
Ilya Repin was very into Christian symbolism and did a bunch of Christ paintings when he got older. Some of them are considered kitch in the pompous art world, but I still like em. Repin was so good, whatever he painted is good.
Would have be nice if you talked about him being born in Ukraine and also the aspect of most Ukrainians being slaves during that time. This opens a whole new meaning in the context of ruzzian expansionist imperialism of today
Considered Russia’s most loved realist painter, Ilya Repin was born in Ukraine. At that time, back in the 1800’s, you had to go to Moscow and Petersburg to go to art school and hang out with other artists, writers and musicians and Repin was close friends with Mussorgsky, Gogol and Tolstoy. His work is just mind blowing. It’s surprising how few people in the west know about him. “The Zapororizhia Cossacks Write a Mocking Letter” painting by Repin might be the first visual example of a meme. Of course it had to be the Ukrainians doing it too. Repin had a sense of humor. I love all the prep sketches for this painting also.
aren't they naturalists then? realism is more about physical realism, while naturalism is more about the reality of society/the world... at least that's how was thaught
How dare you claim these people have the dignity of “cattle moving a plow”? And why ignore all the religious references in the painting?
Repin used plenty of religious symbolism in his painting! He also did big paintings straight out of the Bible, illustrating famous biblical moments. He was really into Christian themes.
Pronouncing fyodor with a French accent is basically an insult.
What is realism? Besides taking a people’s stance toward the content of this painting, is a movie of the same subject more real? The gold standard of realism is a movie in the sense globally having mobile devices at hand a movie is the most used ‘realism’ structure. Manufacturing tools that can both display movies and make them is highly usable in a people’s context. For example videos of police murders trump eye witness testimony. But what exactly is the realism of a movie? It’s not just shots of the commons of our system. The bleak unhoused lives on the streets, but the distribution of knowing that a movie entails. Further, realism is more than stillness, but stillness dominates knowing in any case. So realism is not exactly focusing on seeing inequality, but in advocating that the people control the means of production. Hence, in this painting of barge haulers they carry and use cellphone video machines. That is a path to a realism liberation. To see liberation being enacted in the people’s hands.
Addendum; the bulk of internet traffic is movies. Around 70% of internet traffic. Inside a movie we see like a painting in the sense that motion seeing is less visible. Less conscious. So we need to understand the point of stillness as if the tool of language matters in realism. Is narration language like use of pictures an apt question to ask,of a movie? UA-cam postings are pointed at movies. Being clearer if manufacturing movies dominates social media, what exactly is the role of stillness inside a movie. That is a central question of realism in our times. Automating movie making with AI suggests strongly these question of realism are cutting edge to our times. Meaning what is the realism of a still image? To be understandable? To know? What is outside this still image? Is that context, is the narration providing a realistic connectivity of meaning. Certainly without narration this painting would not be interpretable as what it is. In other words this painting is somewhat outside language and only with language can it be consciously realistic.
You’re overthinking it
@@war-painter In many ways I can get you saying ‘overthinking’. I think it exciting though to have quite a bit of substance to say about painterly realism. It is right in the 19th century when there was an emerging crisis in realism, that boiled for a long time in Western Culture. I think realism deserves a return to that crisis to voice another go at what was started then. Especially the realist gold standard of movies that escaped questions about realism seem particularly hard to fix to the what went wrong with painterly realism then.
Bro. He's weak. They rest are working, thus having the strap taught on their bodies. He is soft, pale, a suck on their effort. There is dignity in their effort, putting one foot in front of the other is the last thing they have. He is the last indignity, despite it all, the human spirit must always carry the youth, the unable, and the unwilling.
There is no dignity in slavery.
Exactly!
The Dracula music is a bit overdramatic don't you think.
Did you know that russian stole this Ukrainian artist and changed his name?
The signature DOES look different, why is that?
I see 11 men who volunteered for this wonderful opportunity to earn some wages to feed their families! Of course they wouldn't wear good clothes do do this kind of work! He looking at you is looking at the artist and wondering what this fool is doing here! "If your not working, get out of the way!" Some people need to have an audience to spew their own opinions to and need to have the false sense of 'intellect'!
I really can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not, I think you are but I could see some grind set dude legitimately thinking like this.
Very impressive, thank you. There is btw a famous song obviously sung by the barge-haulers on the Volga River. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Volga_Boatmen
You absolutely have done justice to Repin, and you are 100% right. It is by far his most realistic work.💥🔥💯 But i do have a soft spot for "Sadko" , his most fantastical work too🧝🧞🧜
Gotta say, “Sadko” my least fave. Contrived. Even the shmaltzy Bible scenes are better. I love the highly melodramatic tenor of Ivan the Terrible weeping over his dead son. The best are his character studies of regular russian people. The crowd scenes. Repin can do crowd scenes better than Spielberg! May 3, 1905 or whatever is a masterpiece.
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Thank you Santiago!!
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Charlene!!! That’s so generous! Thank YOU so much!!
Just watched "Dali's Moustache". 1949 - I met him when he often came to our home to paint a portrait of my mother. The first time I met him I was 7. He
entered the room, clicked his heels and bowed! I was told that I ran screaming from the room. Afterwards he seemed quite gentle and sweet - a good friend to my parents - and nothing like his public persona. Anyway, I have a
wonderful photo of him with my parents and of course a brilliant portrait of my
mother.