- Spatial thinking - axonometry
- Engineering thinking - geometric bodies and perspective
- ‘Geometric method’ of drawing - Anton Azbe, Pavel Chistyakov
- The eye ‘formation’ and measurement skills - proportions, ratios
- Mastery and sense of graphic techniques and mediums: pencil, charcoal, sanguine, Russian sauce, pastel, ink
- Sense of tonality, flow of light, contrast, volume
- Ability to perform sketches and long-term drawings
Academic Traditions
The range of Art courses we offer are based on professional training and fundamental fine arts disciplines: Drawing, Painting and Composition.
Our programme and methods primarily aims to lay the basis for fundamental academic knowledge and visual literacy, nurture a refined sense of artistic expression, cultivate a creative mindset and elevate our follower’s aesthetic taste.
We are not a simple entertainment art course. We are professionals, and we have a goal to reach professionalism with our students.
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- Sense of color - patterns and principles
- Sense of ‘colorito’ and color unity
- Pictorial-spatial relations of color, tone, contrast
- Determination of the main color relationships and color state
- Skills in painting techniques - alla-prima, step-by-step painting. Watercolor and Oil painting
- Palette, color mixture, sense of pigments and their properties
- Ability to perform short-term ‘Études’ and long-term painting works
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Formal-compositional thinking
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Abstract and associative thinking
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Understanding of basic concepts: format, structure, shape, space, center of interest
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Understanding of basic principles: statics and dynamics, rhythm and arrhythmia, analogy and antithesis
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Figurative thinking: impressions, images, states, sensations
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Ability to select a subject - theme and motif, as well as find an artistic solution - structure, color, form
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Stage-by-stage elaboration of formal searches, preparatory material and final work
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