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22 February 2023, 11:58

Repin and Aivazovsky recognized as Ukrainian artists - Metropolitan Museum of Art

Repin and Aivazovsky recognized as Ukrainian artists - Metropolitan Museum of Art
As it turned out, even world-famous museums have the right to make mistakes. But in their case, the main thing is to be able to fix it. One of the largest and fourth most visited art museum in the world, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has changed the signatures for the works of artists Ilya Repin and Ivan Aivazovsky.

Now on the museum's website, in the caption to the portrait of the writer Vsevolod Garshin, the author of which is Ilya Repin, it appears that this is the work of the Ukrainian Ilya Repin. A Ukrainian is also listed at the work of marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky.

These artists have long been considered representatives of the Russian fine arts because of their birth on the territory of the Russian Empire. But now the stereotype about their belonging to the Russian nation is gradually disappearing.

I hope that this will initiate a revision by the world cultural community of the national identity of the authors of various trends. Not only fine arts, but also literature, architecture, etc.
If we turn to the biography of artists, then Ilya Repin was born in 1844 in the city of Chuguev, which at that time was part of the Kharkov province. He came from a Cossack family. Educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He painted in the Russian Empire and was considered one of the key figures of realism.
As for Ivan Aivazovsky, he comes from seven immigrants to the Crimea from western Ukraine. He was born in the coastal town of Feodosiya in 1817. He was also educated at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. For the main part of his life, Aivazovsky lived and painted in the Crimea. World fame came to the artist thanks to the landscapes of the sea. He is considered one of the most brilliant marine painters of all time.

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