On 25-4-2015 13:40, Stephen wrote:
> On 25/04/2015 12:08, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>
>>
>> Typical! I mean /by/ Rosa Bonheur ;-)
>>
>>>
>>> 19th century ray-tracing! - Camera obscura?
>>
>> That and the genre painting, like Ilya Repin for instance.
>>
>
> He is new to me. Thanks.
> A quick google and I like his impressionist style. Subtly different from
> the western style. The painting with serfs bring an image of Modest
> Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina (opera) to my mind.

Oh yes, absolutely. Look at "The barge haulers on the Volga" and you 
will hear the song:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Volga_Boatmen

I learned it from a recording by the Soviet Army Choir, back in the 
sixties :-)

     Эй, ухнем!
     Эй, ухнем!
     Ещё разик, ещё да раз!

>
> You could almost describe their work as "chocolate box" but it isn't.
>

It isn't indeed. There is that subtle difference that separates art from 
kitsch.

-- 
Thomas

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