Tanais Gallery
Vasily Perov. Easter Procession in a Village.
1861. Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
For his Sermon in a Village, painted as a diploma work in 1861, the St. Petersburg Academy awarded Perov the Grand Gold medal and subsidized his trip abroad. The same year, 1861, Perov’s Easter Procession in a Village was removed from the exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of Artists for the insult to the clergy. In connection with this picture one of Perov’s contemporaries remarked, ‘Instead of Italy Perov might be exiled to the Solovetsky Islands’. The work was the manifest of critical realism. Both the subject matter and the handling of it were new and unusual. Perov advisedly chose to paint the reality plain and even filthy. Perov’s Easter Procession in a Village marked the beginning of a new period leading to Repin’s Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk.
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