Painter: Ilya Repin
A friend just introduced me to the turn-of-the (last) century Ukrainian painter Ilya Repin. His realistic works are incredibly lit and detailed. I love this stuff.
Comparing period costumes to even extremely carefully designed fantasy costumes (for instance, in the Lord of the Rings movies) just shows the amazing detail and crazy variety of real costumes. Even the simplest cloak or tunic in these paintings looks much better than the clothing in a typical computer game. Lush.
Check out the Gallery on Wikipedia's bio page.
Some of my favourites:
Comparing period costumes to even extremely carefully designed fantasy costumes (for instance, in the Lord of the Rings movies) just shows the amazing detail and crazy variety of real costumes. Even the simplest cloak or tunic in these paintings looks much better than the clothing in a typical computer game. Lush.
Check out the Gallery on Wikipedia's bio page.
Some of my favourites:
Labels: art
posted by Jaba Adams at 2:04 PM
8 Comments:
Repin was Russian, not Ukrainian :-)
Hmmm. Is this a nationalistic issue? :)
According to Wikipedia (did I just write that?), Chuhuiv was in the Russian Empire at the time, but is now in Eastern Ukraine.
Educate yourself before writing: calling Repin "Ukrainian" sounds extremely idiotic.
> Educate yourself before writing: calling Repin "Ukrainian" sounds extremely idiotic.
Your comment would be more useful if you'd explain why.
I have no idea what "Chuhuiv" is unless you mean Chuguev, but anyway you cannot equate a person's birthplace with his ethnicity. If I were born, say, in Uzbekistan but from the same parents, I would still be Russian, not Uzbek.
Interesting. I claim no expertise in this area.
This concept of ethnicity is interesting. It's a bit strange for someone who's integrated into North American multi-cultural society.
Yes, people will describe themselves as Chinese-Canadian, or Indian-Canadian, or African-American e.g., but usually only in the first generation.
After that you're just Canadian, or American (to a first approximation).
Actually, obviously people beyond the first-generation call themselves "African American", or "Italian Americans".
I suppose this is just my bias. I've grown up with people born in Canada whose parents were from many different lands, but typically the children would just describe themselves as Canadian.
From the standpoint of shaping one's personality, I do think that culture is more important than place of birth, or race. Historically culture has been strongly correlated with race, but it's no longer a given.
In Canada, the "melting pot" tendency is much more pronounced. My children are much more Canadian than I, and the grandchildren will definitely be Canadian first, and Russian, or whatever else their origin will happen to be, second. In Russia and later the USSR the situation was somewhat different. By the way, Isaak Azimov was born in the territory which is now Poland (or maybe Byelorussia, I don't remember), but this does not make him a Polish writer.
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