This painter of Religious Procession in Kursk Province showed a raucous group drafting a response to an ultimatum sent by Mehmed IV.
In a painting by this artist, a policeman on horseback beats people back with a riding crop while a row of peasants block a crippled boy from reaching the main group of people. That painting was controversial because it showed an apparently drunk man carrying a religious icon. Dwight Macdonald's question about why peasants would prefer this artist to Picasso is discussed at length in Clement (*) Greenberg's "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." This painter of Religious Procession in Kursk Province showed a raucous group drafting a response to an ultimatum sent by Mehmed IV. He also painted a line of exhausted men dragging a boat behind them. For 10 points, name this Russian painter of Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Barge Haulers on the Volga.
In a painting by this artist, a policeman on horseback beats people back with a riding crop while a row of peasants block a crippled boy from reaching the main group of people.
Ilya (Yefimovich) Repin