草榴短视频

The rainy autumn weather in Saint-Petersburg inspires artists to create new masterpieces, and also reminds of the start of the annual international project 鈥淐reative Autumn鈥�, which for the sixth year in a row takes place in the northern capital at the site of the Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design. The exhibition contest with the artistic title 鈥淐reative Autumn鈥� is designed to improve the system of replenishing museum collections with works of art by contemporary artists and strengthen cooperation between countries in the field of professional fine art. The project is organized by the University of Industrial Technologies and Design with the support of the Committee for Science and Higher Education, the Saint-Petersburg Union of Artists and the Saint-Petersburg Union of Designers.

Traditionally, the project participants are painters, graphic artists, architects who teach creative disciplines such as drawing, painting and design in different countries. Every year, on the eve of the opening of the exhibition, they share with each other the experience of using various teaching methods. This season, 95 artists-teachers from Finland, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Russia became contestants of the 鈥淐reative Autumn鈥�.

The history of the contest begins in 2016, when the director of Institute of Costume Design of 草榴短视频, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, Professor Pyotr Gamayunov drew the attention of the cultural elite to the problem of the lack of demand in creative projects of artists over 35 years old, although often this age becomes the defining time for the artist, the heyday. As a result of long thoughts and discussions in professional circles, the artist acts as the ideologist of the exhibition contest, which would correct the unfair rule of age restrictions up to 35 years in various creative projects. Every year the popularity and authority of the competition grew, there were more and more participants, it was necessary to introduce restrictions on the size of the works so that all the works fit in the exhibition space of the University. For six years, 鈥淐reative Autumn鈥� has become a platform for the exchange of author's practices of teachers and replenishment of museum collections, and the jury of the competition brought together a team of professional artists from around the world under the chairmanship of Honored Artist of Russia Evgeny Zubov.

The winner of the Grand Prix and a cash prize in the amount of 100 thousand rubles was associate professor of the Ilya Repin Academy of Arts Andrian Bersenev with a work called 鈥淐olumbine鈥�, made in the technique of oil painting. 鈥淐olumbine is a kind of collective image of a girl impersonating music, love, theater. I painted the picture for quite a long time, occasionally I returned to it and completed some details. In total, the work took about a year and a half,鈥� said the artist.