 Imperial Academy of Arts | |
| Native name | Бунт четырнадцати |
|---|---|
| Date | November 9, 1863 |
| Location | Imperial Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Organised by | Ivan Kramskoi |
| Participants | Bogdan Wenig, Firs Zhuravlev, Alexander Morozov, Kirill Lemokh, Ivan Kramskoi, Alexander Litovchenko, Konstantin Makovsky, Nikolai Dmitriev, Nikolai Petrov, Vasily Kreitan, Mikhail Peskov, Nikolay Shustov, Alexei Korzukhin, Alexander Grigoriev |
The Revolt of the Fourteen (Russian: Бунт четырнадцати, romanized: Bunt chetyrnadtsati) was the refusal of 14 top students in the Imperial Academy of Arts of the Russian Empire to participate in a competition that was held on the 100th anniversary of the Academy on 9 November 1863. The revolt, which was led by the realist painter Ivan Kramskoi, was a response to the academy's refusal to give the competitors a free choice of art subject in the competition. The subsequent withdrawal of artists from the academy was the first demonstration by realist artists against the classical style that was popular in 19th-century Russia and is sometimes cited as the source of realism in Russian art.