/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3902709
>Why are russians so great?

Because unlike the West, art schools in Russia never fully dropped their preference and their methods of teaching realism in favor of modern art. With the Imperial Academy in Russia the same methods Ilya Repin used in the 19th century were preserved through time, something that's very rare in the rest of the world because after WWII and up until the 1970s most art schools and the people going to them were all about about modernism and didn't give a fuck about learning to paint the old fashioned way, so the exact same methods used from before then died out except in the hands of a small amount of artists.

I don't know if this guy was trained traditionally in an academy, but it seems realism is respected a lot more in Russia. Perhaps because they know that it still can be an important tool for nationalist propaganda. They train painters who create work that legitimately looks like it is on the same level as the 19th century realists.This painting was made in the early 2000s.