Yeah, your Discord link in the description is invalid. This one in the comments works fine.

How can I donate to The Canvas, please? But NOT via Patreon.

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.

The realest

Repping that realism

For real

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? ukposts.info/have/v-deo/gnhzmWyEjo6buKs.html

@@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.

For a moment, his expression gave me "you're late for work again, asshole. Now grab a strap."

❤

He’s one of my favourite painters. And I love his ‘Ivan the Terrible & His Son’ - I believe it was vandalised 3 times at the Tretyakov, the last attack was in 2018. An extraordinary artist.

Take your medicine.

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

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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.

Thank you Martin!!

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!

really

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.

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.

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so russia's greatest prides are a pole and a ukrainian

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.

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.....

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.

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.

There is no dignity in slavery.

Exactly!

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? UKposts 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.

The signature DOES look different, why is that?

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.

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.

Thank you Santiago!!

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.