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The Russian Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of educational works by students of the monumental painting workshop of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute. V. I. Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts and workshops of the Faculty of Church Arts of the Orthodox St. Tikhon’s Humanitarian University “Link of Times”.

The exhibition includes about 100 copies of easel and monumental works of church art from different periods, made by students of two capital art universities. The head of the monumental workshop, the head of the Department of Painting and Composition of the Moscow State Academy of Arts, as well as the Department of Monumental Art and the permanent curator of the Department of Icon Painting of PSTGU is the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Painting of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor Evgeniy Nikolaevich Maksimov. Over the decades of its existence, his workshops have acquired the reputation of a unique school for training monumental artists not only in Russia, but also in the world, and many of the techniques and methods he studied and developed have no analogues.

Evgeniy Nikolaevich devoted his creativity entirely to a noble cause - the revival of Orthodox churches in Russia, the reconstruction of their picturesque decoration. The traditions were continued by his students, leading teachers of art institutes: Andrei Vladimirovich Remnev, Yulia Aleksandrovna Smirnova, Igor Yurievich Samolygo, Svetlana Viktorovna Vasyutina, Larisa Georgievna Gacheva, Irina Vladimirovna Dvornikova, Natalya Vladimirovna Samolygo, Dmitry Valerievich Repin, Yulia Vyacheslavna Goryanaya and others. Keeping as the basis the principle of professional academic education and mastering the main skills of the difficult work of an artist, they strive to update and develop existing rich traditions in accordance with the requirements of the fast-flowing time. The knowledge and skills of teachers and students of MGAHI and PSTGU allowed them to carry out work on recreating the paintings of many temples, decorating religious and secular buildings as educational and practical training and internships; their experience is in demand all over the world.

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of such a discipline as copying in the work of artists and icon painters. During the learning process, students become acquainted with the best examples of frescoes, mosaics, and icons. Using examples of Byzantine, Old Russian, and Western European art from the 9th-17th centuries, they study the technique and technology of painting materials. It is the copy practice that carries great potential for the subsequent creative development of graduates of academic institutions; it is a bridge through which tradition, like a relay race, is passed on from generation to generation, a connection of times.

In the exhibition space you can simultaneously see a colossal cross-section of church art from ancient and early Christian monuments to works of the beginning of modern times. This includes a section of copies of 17th-century paintings from the churches of the Rostov Kremlin, made by students of the monumental workshop of the Moscow State Academy of Arts under the guidance of corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts A. V. Remnev; and large-scale copies of frescoes and mosaics, made under the guidance of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor I. Yu. Samolygo, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Associate Professor S. V. Vasyutina, Associate Professor L. G. Gacheva, I. V. Dvornikova at the Department of Monumental Art PSTGU; student copies of ancient icons, created under the guidance of Associate Professor E. D. Sheko and Associate Professor M. O. Glebova at the Department of Icon Painting of PSTGU. The project demonstrates not only the high level of students and their mentors, but also the rich experience in studying the artistic heritage of monumental painting, its technologies and techniques, the properties of various materials involved in creating the image, as well as iconography and stylistics.

Curators of the exhibition project:

Academician and member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor Evgeny Nikolaevich Maksimov;

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Professor of the Department of Monumental Art of the Federal Center of Artists of the PSTGU Igor Yuryevich Samolygo.