Russian Repin Academy of Fine Arts Drawing Advanced Course Pdf
The revival of academic drawing and painting in America and Europe has largely been guided by the republication of the book by Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Only there are other ways of approaching the teaching of academic drawing, most notably the Russian tradition, which has more of a focus on spirit and structure, rather than the outward advent of the form. I discussed some of the differences between the two approaches in an earlier post when I interviewed Professor Sergey Chubirko
For those interested in Russian academic methods, there are two recent books by a living Russian master named Vladimir Mogilevtsev. He is the head of the Drawing Department of the Russian Academy of Arts (also known as the Repin Found) in Leningrad.
Mr. Mogilevtsev's primary books are Fundamentals of Cartoon
I was interested in the drawings, of class, just fifty-fifty more interested in the thinking behind the drawings, and these books provide an excellent window into the mind of the Russian academy.
The style the book is organized is that at that place'due south a step by footstep sequence that plays out on the correct hand folio. On the left hand page is a commentary, along with examples by masters of the past, frequently including Russian artists such every bit Repin, Serov and Fechin.
In both the drawing and painting books, Mr. Mogilevtsev places great accent on beginning with a strong concept of the subject, analyzing what feeling the subject evokes in the artist, and thinking how best that can exist expressed.
He as well analyzes the form into its blocky forms, the skeletal foundation, and the private muscles below the skin. The examples from old master drawings, sculptures, and paintings clarify his observations, and deepen the appreciation of the way our predecessors solved like issues.
Fundamentals of Painting
The quotes from the text are refreshing:
"Sometimes students complain that they don't similar a scene. This is a sign of laziness and limitation of an artist'south imagination. There is a person, and a person is the whole world. Revealing this globe is a huge task for any creative person."
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| Sketches and finished portrait by Valentin Serov |
There's a lot of accent on planning with sketches to capture the quality of the field of study that attracted the artist, and in maintaining that perception throughout the arduous process. The text emphasizes seeing the whole, contrasting warm and cool, and establishing a bureaucracy of details, with not all details being equal.
They're large books (13 3/4" x 9 3/iv"), and the quality of the reproductions is outstandingly good. Currently, if you lot buy them in this form, they volition ship you the PDF of the English translation. The English translation is also splendid. I'm told the English language print editions are soon to come up, and I'll update this post when they become bachelor.
I take also been told by the publisher that the cartoon book is in the procedure of beingness translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Turkish languages. They also already take a Chinese translation a Finnish version.
I besides highly recommend Academic Drawings and Sketches (Fundamentals Teaching Aids) (shown at left). Instead of showing a couple of drawings taken through a long series of stages, this is a large collection of finished examples of Russian bookish figure drawings. They're mostly nudes, drawn by the instructors and students over the last 25 years.
It as well includes some more breezy sketchbook drawings of fellow students and landscapes.
Source: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2015/08/russian-academic-books-on-drawing-and.html