(Ebook) Fundamentals of drawing 1st Edition by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mogilevtsev, Anna Edwards ISBN 590495705X 9785904957056

The first and only publication over the past 35 years, made with an official approval and support of the Repin Institute (aka Russian Academy of Fine Arts), St. Petersburg, Russia. Laconic, well-illustrated with tables, photographs of anatomical casts, charts, drawings by old masters, the manual explains the system of academic drawing and illustrates the stages of work.Over 30 years of teaching experience by professor Vladimir Mogilevtsev set forth in the light of traditions of classical Russian school, and on practical assignments, step by step, conveys the essence - the fundamentals of drawing - in a simple and understandable form. This makes it possible not only to understand and explore the modern academic requirements to classical drawing, but also sets the right directions for self-study.ReferencesThis book, written by one of the leading professors of Department of Drawing, Ilya Repin Institute, is a significant summary of the author’s teaching experience acquired through teaching drawing at a higher education institution. e author shares his method of drawing human figure and the head, explaining the process step by step. is book may be useful for young artists trying to improve their skills in depicting the human form. is work reminds us about the in nity of art, its development and its perfecting. is textbook is truly unique and takes a special place among the numerous other books teaching drawing methods. e author expresses his view based on firsthand experience of training future artists. /O. A. Yeremeyev, Professor, Head of Department of Drawing, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts/ Drawing is the most important, determinative, one might say, component of the artistic process. Its self-dependent artistic value is hardly attainable without preliminary, at times long, practice and under- standing of drawing methods. e textbook written by V. A. Mogilevtsev, one of the most experienced professors of Department of Drawing of the Ilya Repin Institute of the Russian Academy of Arts, is aimed to help a young artist to master the skills of drawing human head and figure. Many years of teaching experience enabled the author to create a clear and concise teaching system. It is of crucial importance that the practical part of the book successively uncovering the steps of the drawing process nds its substantiation and development in the reproductions of works by the outstanding masters. No doubt that this book will be in demand with those who aim to unearth the mysteries of the world of Art. /N. S. Kuteinikova, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation, PhD in Art History, Professor of Department of Drawing, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture