Russian masters of drawing 
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Since the sixties of the last century, in Russia begins to show a special interest in the art of pencil drawing. This allows us to hold in 1972, in Leningrad, the First All-Russian Exhibition dedicated exclusively to drawing. This and subsequent exhibitions have clearly shown what amazing heights in the image of objects with a pencil can be achieved with the help of excellent knowledge of old, and sometimes undeservedly forgotten techniques.
Pavel Chistyakov, a famous Russian painter who raised many artists, assigned the most important role to drawing in the formation and growth of a true master. He said that everything that is hardest, courageous and most noble in art is expressed through drawing.
Valentin Serov - Portrait of the ballerina T.P. Karsavina (1909)
The greatest contribution to the development of Russian drawing was made by the brilliant master of the line and stroke Valentin Serov. All textbooks on drawing, not only in Russia but also abroad, are illustrated by his “Portrait of the Ballerina Tamara Krasavina”, as an example of what skill can be achieved through hard work and constant exactingness for oneself. Serov himself liked to repeat: "everything will be quite simple if you do it once a hundred."
Today, artists’ proposals are acquiring new features and are becoming available to everyone: for example, a street cartoonist or cartoonist for a wedding draw your portrait in minutes.
Mikhail Vrubel, who differs from many in a special, unique manner of writing, left behind not only a lot of wonderful paintings, but also a large number of graphic works in which strokes and lines are intertwined with complex scripts. With this, the master wanted to convey the always changing nature of any, even the most static image.
Among other Russian artists who masterfully owned the technique of drawing, mention should be made of Karl Bryullov, Orest Kiprensky, Alexander Ivanov, Ilya Repin and others. All of them were characterized by a unique freshness of perception of nature, and their own path in the search for special expressiveness.