the Russian academic school
Why Russian School?
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ART WORLD
The contemporary Western European (Anglo-American) art world over the last few decades has continually drifted towards increasing modernism and liberalism.
The result has been an increasing focus and emphasis on individual self expression and highly abstract values.
In this process, many artists have been trained and educated without any respect or recognition of the true classical basis and foundation of the practical academic disciplines of the past.
The Western European art world has largely been driven by a permissive liberalism, fuelled by an a mixture of eccentricity and extremism that has ignored and lost it classical roots and foundations.
As a result, modernism and liberalism has essentially lost and drifted away from the true foundations and disciplines and values of a true classical academic artistic education.
The increasing emphasis on speed, marketability and profitability in the western industrialized and highly materialised consumer-orientated world has caused many artists to abandon and neglect the fundamental and essential values and disciplines of the past master painters and artists.
Most government art schools and art academies based on the expedient contemporary art model and as a result, many students graduate without a true practical knowledge of art disciplines or knowledge of the art profession or personal development as a professional artist.
In contrast to the Western system, the Eastern (essentially Russian and Chinese) art schools/colleges and academies have retained the classical values and continued to develop and train their artists along the lines of the great masters.
While western art world has increasingly drifted away from the true roots and heritage of the classical period, the Russian schools have retained and continued to value and train artists along the lines of a true classical art education.
