Ivan Kramskoy
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Ivan Kramskoy BiographyRussian Naturalist artistAlso well-known as Ivan Kramskoi, Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi, Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy Russian name: Иван Николаевич Крамской born 1837 - died 1887 Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy is an outstanding representative of the democratic culture in Russia of the second half of the 19th century. Ivan Kramskoy is known as a wonderful painter and draughtsman, a remarkable art critic and theoretician of Russian art, a talented teacher. |
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Ivan Kramskoy is famous mainly as a
portraitist; his Russian portraits of the 60s are
not large, and very often black and white,
reminding of photographs. At the same period
(1863-68) he taught in The Drawing
School of the Society for Promoting of the
Artists; his pupils, among others, were
Iliya Repin and Nicolay Yaroshenko. |
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| In 1873 Tretyakov commissioned the Portrait of Leo Tolstoy for Ivan Kramskoy gallery. Tolstoy had refused several times. “Please use all your charm to persuade him “, wrote Tretyakov to Kramskoy. And Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi managed to do this, the writer and the artist were both impressed by each other’s personalities. Kramskoy painted one of the best of all Tolstoy’s portraits. Tolstoy was working on Anna Karenina at the time and Ivan Kramskoy used his character as one of the secondary personages in the novel – the artist Mikhailov. | |
| The Russian artist always understood the capturing charm of color, admired Alexander Ivanov, his younger contemporaries – Repin, Vasiliyev, Polenov, French Impressionists - “…Just a small group of laughed at Russian painters, but the future belongs to them…”, he wrote in the 70s about his French colleagues. But Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy himself was a poor colorist. | |
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Once during the
Russian oil painting on the portrait of Adrian Prakhov, the
mother of the sitter saw the portrait after
the first day of painting and impressed by
it, took it away and did not allow Kramskoy
to finish it, she said that if the artist
went on working Ivan Kramskoy would dry it as usual.
Himself understood his drawbacks
and limits, but was afraid to change his
manner.
The artist died
on 24 March 1887 during Ivan Kramskoy painting on the
portrait of Doctor Rauhphus with brush in
his hand. |
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