At ten, watched his cousin Ilya Repin painting a watermelon. The budding artist considered the process of creating an illusion of crude pigments as quite magical, and he "never lost fascination and wonder for the process of painting, invest a mystic autonomous quality, almost religious. "
This, according to a new biography of David Jackson realism of the 19th century, entitled Ilya Repin :. Russian vision
Below: early work of Repin (click it to enlarge.)
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Tomorrow: storage Council Watercolor tubes
