Pavel Chistyakov
Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich (Russian: Чистяков Павел Петрович, 1832 – 1919) was a Russian painter and teacher of art.
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He studied in St.Petersburg Academy of arts (1849 - 1861) under P.V. Basin. He was the pensioner of Academy of arts in Paris and in Rome (1862-1870). He taught in Drawing School of the Petersburg society of encouragement of applied arts (1860-1864) and in St.Petersburg (since 1872), he was the professor-head of workshop (1908-1910) and managing mosaic branch (1890-1912). Art-pedagogical system of Chistyakov whose students were Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov,Vasily Surikov, developed in constant struggle against inert system of academism and played a huge role in development of realism in Russian art of the second half of 19 century. The main goal of Chistyakov was a preparation of the artist-citizen possessing high professional skill. His pedagogical method assumed merge of direct perception of a nature by the artist to its scientific studying. In creative practice he aspired to dramatization of a historical plot and a psychological saturation figurative building in historical and genre portraits ("The Chuchara’s head”, 1864 in Russian museum, St.Petersburg, "Boyar", 1876 in Tretyakov gallery, Moscow).
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