From September 28 to November 28 the exhibition St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Figurative Art will be displayed in the main building of the A.Kasteev Kazakh State Museum of Arts in Almaty. The exhibition will open as part of the international cultural project Russian Seasons, which is taking place for the first time in Kazakhstan and is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The exhibition will include more than a hundred works by teachers and graduates of the St. Petersburg academic school, which trained many wonderful masters, including Kazakh artists and fine arts experts.
The St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts was created in the mid-18th century to train and educate talented artists, sculptors and architects. The first teachers were from Europe, who eventually gave way to outstanding Russian artists. Painters Anton Losenko and Dmitry Levitsky, Karl Bryullov and Alexander Ivanov, Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin studied and taught at the Academy.
Within the walls of the majestic building on the Neva embankment, its students and teachers created paintings and sculptures on biblical, heroic and patriotic themes, designs for public buildings in classical architectural forms. Synthesis of arts, expressivity and integrity of composition, plastic forms, and color harmony have always been of high value here.
