Have you ever heard that there is a painting Repin "sailed"? Perhaps, after all, the great artist created many genre paintings. If there is a picture “They didn’t wait”, then why not be a pictorial work under a similar “plot” title? To create such a canvas, one must have an adventurous character and a remarkable sense of humor. However, those who carefully examined the masterpieces of the master will not argue with the fact that literally every painting by Repin reveals to us a multifaceted and fascinating world.
"Sailed." Description of a picturesque masterpiece
A small river winds along the meadows behind the village, fog spreads over it. In the distance domes of a white-walled church appear, horses graze. In the background, life is in full swing. Naked women of all ages splash in the water on the shore, some blissfully bask in the warm streams, others wash themselves busily. On a sloping coast, clothes are thrown, buckets with a yoke, a girl undresses, an old woman takes off her clothes with her back to her. Between them, looking at the water, two gossips fuss about something. The two kids in their underwear look at us fervently.
And suddenly, from a dense fog, a boat with monks swims into the very center of the nude scene. The peasant women stagger back, Chernets stunned with oars, and only the fat priest in the middle of the boat, it seems, is not at all embarrassed: he stands with his hands behind his back and hides a sly smile in his red beard . The climax is beautifully written by the author: shock, surprise, amazement, and at the same time, the laughter from the incident that happened to break through. Well, what is it not Repin? “Have sailed!” - we smile, amusing ourselves with the comic effect of the situation. Only this painting does not belong to Ilya Efimovich at all. Where does the misconception that this is a painting of Repin come from?
“Sailed” or “Didn’t drop in there”?
The canvas with the above plot, exhibited in the museum of the city of Sumy in Ukraine, belongs to the brush of Lev Grigorievich Solovyov. A Russian artist who did not receive professional education (he was a free student of the Academy of Arts) painted talented canvases and icons. Being a native of peasants, the painter eagerly illustrated the works of Nekrasov.
A picture called “Monks. Went into the wrong place ”Soloviev created in the 70s of the 19th century. At the exposition next to her were Repin's canvases. The confusion in the public consciousness arose, perhaps because there is some similarity in understanding the plot conflict, in relation to the heroes and in the graphic manner of the two artists. So there appeared a word-of-mouth legend called "Repin's painting" Sailed! " This expression has already become phraseological unit.
Another myth
But the collective mind does not calm down and continues to search in the works of the famous painter for a work that can be denoted by this name. And now, some “experts” report that Repin's painting “Sailed” is the painting “Bosyaki. Created by Ilya Efimovich in 1894”. Homeless. ” It is exhibited at the Odessa Art Museum.
What do tramps dream of?
In the foreground we see two homeless people. The older one thought sorrowfully, chasing his hands in a long-black black caftan. Next to his bent figure lies a young "tattered man" in a dirty tattered clothes, lying elbows on his arm. The brilliant azure of water shining in the sun is crossed out diagonally by a stone ragged border. With the blindingly clear expanse of water and a white sail in the center, the squalid dark outlines of the vagrants compete. At the same time, the landscape romance has something in common with the serene expression on the face of a young tramp who seems to find his happiness in vagrancy. Contrast, in which, however, there is also a certain parallel, is what this painting of Repin is fraught with. Have these two sailed on a random barge and settled right there on the pier, or are they waiting for a passing barge to go to other places? Together with the heroes, we find ourselves in a stopped minute of expectation and reflect on the vicissitudes of being.
"Water" paintings by Ilya Repin
The master created more than one work in which events are played out on the shore, and about which one could say: “This is Repin's painting“ Sailed. ”Photo reproductions of the great artist’s canvases are easily found in many print media. they are not included in this category, but, for example, “The End of the Black Sea Volnitsa” (the canvas was created in the 1900s) fully corresponds to this name.
The plot of the picture can be considered a continuation of the theme, which was created in the same years by the canvas “Cossacks on the Black Sea”. It depicts the Cossacks, caught in a storm after an attack on the Turkish coast. Confusion, heroism, dramatic glow are present on the canvas. And the painting “The End of the Black Sea Volnitsa” shows captive Cossacks sitting on the shore of a stormy sea and doomed drooping doom under the evil eyes and guns of Turkish guards.