Ely Belyutin's Students

Set up after WW2, «The New Reality» has been conceived as an alternative to the USSR Academy of Arts. Its participants advocated the revival of traditions of active creative search typical for Russian avant-garde artists of the early 20th century: Vasili Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko. The founder of the Studio is Ely Belyutin — a legendary and controversial, talented artist-innovator and teacher, who created unique forms of creativity and worked out a system and theoretical base applicable both in art and methodology. His unique educational program was aimed at the inner liberation of a man, the extension of human emotional diapason and search for new means for a sensual documentation of the reality. These ideas became a foundation for his «Theory of common ability to contact» — an original creative method for working with pupils, which goals were not only objective depiction of the surrounding world, but also the presentation of the author’s personal perception. 

We show works by Nina Shirokova, Margarita Derzhavina, and Boris Derzhavin

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