Creative Activity of the Easel Painting Workshops of the All-Russian Academy of Arts (1932–1947)
Keywords:
All-Russian Academy of Arts, personal easel painting workshops, I.I. Brodsky, art education, Soviet art, Leningrad, academic art of the mid-20th centuryAbstract
The All-Russian Academy of Arts existed in Leningrad from 1932 to 1947. It revived the system of training in personal workshops under the guidance of prominent Soviet artists. Around the heads of the workshops were formed interesting creative teams consisting of painters of different generations. The All-Russian Academy of Arts contributed to the revival of the pre-revolutionary traditions of the national art education system and the creation of a new system of art education. The creative activity of easel painting workshops is of great interest, as they played a crucial role in establishing the basic principles of art education. They produced numerous students, many of whom became outstanding masters of Russian painting. They were led by such artists as I. I. Brodsky, A. A. Osmerkin, A. I. Savinov, B. V. Ioganson, and other masters. Despite the serious interest of researchers to the problems of the domestic art of the 1930 and 1940s, the history of the Academy has not been yet sufficiently studied. It is important to evaluate objectively, from the standpoint of modern art history, the role of the Academy of Arts in the restructuring of the Soviet academic system of art education and in the development of art in general. The article aims to provide a reconstruction of the creative activity of the easel painting workshops of the All-Russian Academy of Arts.
References
Balakina N. M.; Volkova O. V. Isaak Brodskii. Zhivopis’ i grafika: polny`i katalog sobraniia (Isaac Brodsky. Paintings and graphics: full catalog of the collection), vol. 1. Museum-apartment of I. I. Brodsky, Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. St. Petersburg, RM RAA Publ., 2021. 207 p. (in Russian).
Bogdan V. T. Uchitelya i ucheniki. Katalog vystavki rossiiskikh i azerbaidzhanskikh khudozhnikov (Masters and Students. Exhibition catalog of Russian and Azerbaijan artists). St. Petersburg, Baku, NP-Print Publ., 2018. 279 p. (in Russian).
Bogdan V. T. Obrazy schast’ia. Akademicheskaia zhivopis’ 1950–1960-kh gg. (Images of Happiness. Academic painting of 1950–1960s. Album-catalogue of the exhibition, Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts). St. Petersburg, RM RAA Publ., 2023. 159 p. (in Russian).
Brodskii I. I. Moi tvorcheskii put’ (My way in art). Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR Publ., 1965. 176 p. (in Russian).
Brodskii E. I. Vospominaniia ob ottse (Memories about my father). Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Publ., 2021. 204 p. (in Russian).
Druzhinin A. A. Battle painting workshop of the Academy of Arts under the direction of R. R. Frenz (1934–1956). Akademiia khudozhestv v prostranstve kul’turnykh kommunikatsii (Academy of Arts in the space of cultural communications). Moscow, Course Publ., 2022, pp. 198–214 (in Russian).
Gracheva S. M. From the history of the Russian Academy of Arts in the first half of the XX century. Peterburgskie iskusstvovedcheskie tetradi, 2009, vol. 16, pp. 31–46 (in Russian).
Gracheva S. M. Laktionov Aleksandr Ivanovich. Available at: https://old.bigenc.ru/fine_art/text/2641648 (accessed 10 August 2024) (in Russian).
Gracheva S. M. Sovremennoe peterburgskoe akademicheskoe izobrazitel’noe iskusstvo. Traditsii, sostoianie i trendy razvitiya (Modern Saint Petersburg Academic Fine Arts. Traditions, State and Trends of Development). Moscow, BuksMArt Publ., 2019. 368 p. (in Russian).
Gracheva S. M. All-Russian Academy of Arts: pages of history (1932–1947), Iskusstvo Evrazii (The Art of Eurasia), 2022, vol. 4, pp. 82–105 (in Russian). DOI 10.46748/ARTEURAS.2022.04.006. Available at: https://eurasia-art.ru/art/article/view/940 (accessed 1 August 2024)
Grishina E. V. Pavel Aleksandrovich Shillingovskii i ego ucheniki (Pavel Aleksandrovich Shillingovskij and his students. Exhibition catalog). Leningrad, Iskusstvo Publ., 1980. 73 p. (in Russian).
Lisovskii V. G. Akademiia khudozhestv (The Academy of Arts). Leningrad, Lenizdat Publ., 1982. 224 p. (in Russian).
Lyubimova A.; Arskaya I. Rudolf Frenz, 1888–1956: exhibition catalog. St. Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2005. 96 p. (in Russian).
Mikhailovskii S. I. Posle voiny. Katalog vy’stavki (After the War. Exhibition catalog at the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts). St. Petersburg, I. E. Repin Institute Publ., 2015. 383 p. (in Russian).
Mudrov A. Yu.; Bogdan V. T. From Repin to Brodsky. Sbornik materialov mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii (Collection of materials of the international scientific conference). St. Petersburg, RM RAA Publ., 2024. 350 p. (in Russian).
Osmerkin A. A. Reflections on art. Letters. Criticism. Memories of contemporaries. Moscow, Sovetskii khudozhnik Publ., 1981. 399 p. (in Russian).
Ostroumova-Lebedeva A. P. Autobiographical Notes, vol. 3. Moscow, Izobrazitel’noe iskusstvo Publ., 1974. 494 p. (in Russian).
Savinov A. I. Letters. Documents. Memories. Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR Publ., 1983. 332 p. (in Russian).
Yakovleva E. P. (ed.) Vasilii Shukhaev: iskusstvo, sud’ba, nasledie: kollektivnaia monografiia (Vasily Shukhaev: art, fate, heritage: collective monograph). Moscow, BuksMArt Publ., 2020. 375 p. (in Russian).
Zhukov I. V. Aleksandr Efimov. Album-Catalog. St. Petersburg, Artindex Publ., 2018. 237 p. (in Russian).
