The Russian Academy Of Arts

On November 24, 2009 the Moscow State Academy Art Lyceum, 8 Krymsky Val,   will mark its 70th anniversary. It was set up in 1939 as the Moscow Secondary Art School.  In 1951 the School became a division of the USSR Academy of Arts and in 1992 was reformed into the Moscow State Academy Art Museum.   

 

Children with exceptional abilities with the four-year experience in the primary school receive their art education from the 5th to the 11th grade in disciplines of painting, sculpture and architecture along with the compulsory secondary education.  Today, about 300 most gifted children from Russia and other countries study at the Moscow Academy Art Lyceum.

 

The jubilee is marked by a large-scale exhibition entitled Academicians in the Lyceum featuring early and students’ works by artists-members of the Russian Academy of Arts, many of whom are the Lyceum’s alumni. On show are Zurab Tsereteli’s works that have never been exhibited in public before: a series of his nude drawings executed when he was a second-year student of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts; his diploma work “Male Portrait”; several landscapes of Georgia. The display also includes students’ works by celebrated masters, such as T. Nazarenko, N. Nesterova, P. Ossovsky, N. Nikonov, G. Korzhev, V. Ivanov, A. Tkachev, O.Savostyuk, S. Alimov, E. Maximov, A. Tutunov, V. Sidorov, N. Solomin, S. Prisekin and many others.

 

Visitors will see a film and unique photographs showing the Lyceum’s history, its founders and first teachers, years of evacuation during the War in 1941-1945,  ground-breaking ceremony for the present building of the Lyceum, the most significant events throughout its history.     

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