Minsk Art School. The famous “Glebovka” acquired its own art gallery

Among the graduates of the college are artists, sculptors and teachers of the Republic of Belarus Mikhail Savitsky, May Danzig, Viktor Gromyko, Arlen Kashkurevich, Leonid Shchemelev, Georgy Poplavsky, Yuri Vykhodtsev, Adam Globus, Sergey Bondarenko and others who have received international recognition. The college was named after the Belarusian artist and teacher Alexei Konstantinovich Glebov, a graduate of the Vitebsk Art School - the historical predecessor of the Minsk State Art College.

Location

With the disappearance of the USSR and the creation of a new state in Europe - the independent Republic of Belarus in 1992, the school was transformed into Minsk State Art College named after A.K. Glebov.

Personalities

People's Artists of the Republic of Belarus - college graduates

• Victor Gromyko
• Georgy Poplavsky

Teachers

• Shevchenko, Akim Mikhailovich - teacher of painting, 1947-1959
• Vykhodtsev, Yuri Fedorovich - drawing, easel painting, -1986
• Mozolev, Alexander Petrovich - painting, graphics
• Tsukanov, Sergey Maksimovich - director and teacher, 1969-1975

College students from different years

• Leonid Davidenko - Belarusian Soviet sculptor, painter, graphic artist, teacher.
• Yuri Karachun - artist, art critic, director of the National Art Museum of Belarus in 1977-1997.
• Viktor Kopach is a Belarusian sculptor, studied from 1986 to 1990.
• Maxim Petrul is a Belarusian sculptor.
• Andrey Sidorenko is an artist.
• Georgy Skripnichenko is a Belarusian surrealist artist.
• Andrey Shelluto is an artist and designer.

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Literature

• Belarusian Encyclopedia: U 18 vol. Vol. 10: Malaysia - Mugaraj / Editorial: G. P. Pashkov and others. - Mn.: BelEn, 2000. - T. 10. - P. 412. - 544 p. - 10,000 copies. - ISBN 985-11-0169-9 (vol. 10) (Belarusian)
• Encyclopedic literature and history of Belarus: U 5th volume. T. 3. Karchma - Naygrysh / Redkal.: I. P. Shamyakin (Gal. ed.) and others. - Mn.: BelSE, 1986. - P. 552-553. - 751 p. - 9500 copies. (Belorian)

Links

• // “Culture”, No. 50 (816) / 15 - 21.12.2007 (Belarus)

An excerpt characterizing the Minsk State Art College named after A.K. Glebov

Inspiration alone is not enough to create a masterpiece. It requires knowledge of technology, a broad outlook and the ability to think. Study the world alone and national culture and it is not always possible to reach your potential. Help is nearby: at the Minsk State Art College named after A.K. Glebov they will teach, advise, and inspire. The director of the college spoke about what specialties there are and how the training is conducted. Shantarovich Alexander Valerievich.

– Alexander Valerievich, what specialties are there in the college?
– We have 4 specialties: “Design”, “Painting”, “Sculpture”, “Decorative and Applied Arts”. All of them are popular, this is evidenced by the competition that is being formed in our last years. Last year, for example, budget training in the specialty “Design”, 7.8 people applied. On average, competition for all four specialties has been 3-3.5 people per place in the last few years. Moreover: even on paid training Not everyone applies.
Design is very popular today. Therefore, we recruit the most students for the corresponding specialty: 26 people. The paid form of education prevails here: only 4-5 people from the group study on a budget.
In recent years, interest in painting has grown. This year we are recruiting 16 people. The competition last year was very high, and this is encouraging. Most study on a budget, on on a paid basis total training
4-6 people.
Several years ago there were problems with the specialty “Sculpture”. We had difficulty recruiting groups for this specialty. But last year the competition was 2 people per place, and today, analyzing our work with potential applicants, we think it will be even higher.
As part of the specialty "Decorative and Applied Arts" we are engaged in wood processing. There are only 5 people studying in this specialty, so they always find places for distribution.
By the way, you can study the specialties “Sculpture” and “Decorative and Applied Arts” in our college only on a budgetary basis.

– How is the introductory campaign going?
– To enter an art college, you need to pass a creative exam. It consists of three stages. Those who enroll in the majors “Painting”, “Decorative and Applied Arts” and “Design” must pass entrance examination, which includes tests in drawing, painting, composition (easel, if you enroll in the specialty “Painting”, and decorative, if you enroll in the specialty “Design” and “Decorative and Applied Arts”).
Those who enroll in the specialty “Sculpture” will have to test in drawing, sculpture and sculptural composition.
To prepare for the exams, applicants can take training in preparatory courses who work for us throughout the entire school year and within a month before entrance examinations. There are also Days open doors, training master classes. We invite applicants and conduct rehearsal exams in all three disciplines in a workshop setting. In addition, on the college website you can get acquainted with the requirements for entrance work and the program of entrance tests.

Practical painting lessons

– How are classes going in college?
– All disciplines related to the specialty are practical in nature. When teaching drawing and painting, we start with still lifes. Then we gradually complicate the task and lead students to the most difficult thing - the image of a human figure.
Our colleagues in training musicians, dancers, and artists train future performers, whose task is to be able to perform someone else’s work. And each of our graduates is a composer himself, because he creates his own work. Therefore, it is not enough to teach technique and technology, to train a hand, to develop an eye. It is necessary to develop thinking and consciousness so much that a person can come up with a work himself and convey his thought on canvas or in material. This is much more difficult.
This is difficult to teach. But this is possible if a teacher who knows his stuff teams up with a student who wants to gain knowledge. And then everything will work out.
Therefore we have additional classes aimed at developing the student’s potential and developing professional skills. We organize a large number of outdoor plein airs. Every year on August 31, our first-year students board buses and go to their first plein air. Traditionally, we go to Nesvizh.
We also organize a large number of exhibitions both in the city and throughout the country. We participate in competitions various levels, even organized their own international competition, to maximum amount our students were able to participate and were getting used to the competitive environment.

– Who works with students?
– In recent years, the composition of teachers has been significantly updated. Almost all of them are graduates of the Belarusian State Academy arts Many teachers special disciplines in the past – our graduates.
Preservation best traditions combined with innovations in the field artistic creativity have always been the main and distinctive features our college. Even in 1947, when the college was created, graduates of various art schools came to work here: teachers from the Vitebsk Art College, and teachers from Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic states. Compound different schools in one has created its own specificity, thanks to which our college is always recognizable.

– Does the college provide hostel accommodation? for out-of-town students?
- Not yet. The new college building and dormitory are currently under construction. Our colleagues from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts and the Belarusian state university Culture and Arts annually allocate places for our students in their dormitories.
There are only a few places available, so we only accommodate children who need housing.

– What can students do after class?
– Our children participate in volunteer projects. We visit orphanages, boarding schools, hospices, children's hospitals, and clinics. The children conduct master classes, draw and sculpt together with the children, and decorate the halls and medical rooms so that they look attractive to visitors. Young patients, looking at the drawings on the walls created by our guys, are distracted from the hospital atmosphere and are less likely to feel a sense of fear before visiting a doctor.
The college also operates an educational excursion project. It’s one thing to study the history of world and Belarusian art from pictures and presentations, and quite another to see it in reality. Culture needs to be seen and felt. To do this, you need to meet and communicate with people who are carriers of this culture, travel around the world and study monuments of art. Therefore, throughout the academic year we organize a series of trips around the country. We travel abroad once a year. This year there was an 11-day trip to Italy, last year - to Germany. We actively cooperate with our Polish colleagues.
We prepare for each trip: students go to additional classes, study the material they will encounter. They all get individual task on a trip, they keep a travel diary with sketches and sketches, and when they return, they present their series of drawings, on the basis of which an exhibition is organized. They also write an essay based on the results of the trip.
For many years we have been implementing the “Portrait of a Veteran” project. Today we have a large exhibition of portraits.
This year we won a UNESCO grant for the implementation of the project “The Legacy of Francysk Skaryna”, dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Belarusian printing. The project involves holding a series of outdoor plein airs in all places that are associated with the life and work of Skaryna, research activities, meetings with representatives of educational institutions of the cities visited. So, during a trip to Italy we visited the University of Padua. And when you see a portrait of our compatriot in the Hall of Forty, a feeling of national pride arises, an understanding of the significance of national culture.
We visited Polotsk, Vilnius, Prague, Krakow, Padua. We wrote works and formed an exhibition that will be exhibited in many exhibition halls across the country. If we implement the project to the end, the last exhibition should be held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. As part of the project, catalogs of plein air works will be published, a scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 500th anniversary will be held, and materials will be published.

– Where do graduates go after graduating from college?
– Our graduates choose various places to continue their creative path. Some people go to work after graduating from college, while others go to higher education institutions. Most of enters the Academy of Arts or other universities for the same or related specialties that they mastered in our college.

Protection thesis

– Where are graduates distributed?
– Graduates find their first workplace in art schools, studios, centers additional education. An option is possible when a graduate gets a job in design studios and design departments in organizations where an artist or designer is in demand. It can be different organizations both public and private forms of ownership.
We have HR customers with whom we have long-term contracts. Today we maintain contact with all the main museums in the country, theaters, art schools, and centers of additional education.
Some graduates find placements themselves. If their applications correspond to their specialty and qualifications, we are happy to satisfy them, because the graduate is interested in this workplace and they want to see him there.
We are always attentive to placement and are interested in our students working in places where they will continue to develop professionally.

– Are there any changes planned that future college students should know?
– We do not plan to add new specialties. Our college is the only one in the country where training is provided in all four main specialties at the level of a secondary specialized educational institution in the field of fine arts.
We are constantly adjusting the program, especially the programs for special disciplines of designers. If “Sculpture” and “Painting” are classical specialties that have been established for centuries, then “Design” is a dynamic specialty developing direction. After each semester, we discuss what can be added to the program to make our designer in demand. We are adding more web and digital technologies.

– What qualities do you need to have to study in college?
– The most important thing is hard work. As practice shows, abilities are not all that is needed to achieve success. Of course, there must be a creative component. This is the problem for many of our freshmen. Before entering, they studied in studios or art schools, they were happy to come 1-2 times a week for an hour or two and write something there depending on the mood. And everyone admired their work and said how great it was. Such a pastime is very pleasant: you are at the easel, you realize yourself, you succeed. But this is all at an amateur level.
As soon as such guys come to us, everything changes. Now, regardless of whether you want it or not, whether you have inspiration or not, you must come to the workshop, stand at the easel and work your hours. Sometimes it's four hours, and sometimes it's all 10.
In order to get results, you need to work. Therefore, I would put the ability, desire to work and organize my time in the first place. It’s even better if hard work is superimposed on abilities, which develop more and more from working capacity.
Of course, as in every business, a big component is mastering technique and technology. And if you also “turned on” your individuality, the result will be. It’s very disappointing to see guys who are potentially very strong and could achieve a lot, but due to various reasons cannot organize themselves. And the result turns out to be not as good as it could be.

High school graduation

– What do you need to understand to become an artist?
– First of all, you need to really want to learn. We used to say that we need to finish art school to come prepared and enroll in our college. But in Lately We are increasingly receiving applicants who did not attend art school.
There are cases when a person thinks that he wants to engage in design, painting or sculpture, comes to us, and during his studies he understands: to become an artist, you need to stand at the machine for several hours every day. And somewhere all the desire immediately disappears. It is important to understand: learning from us is a colossal work.

Natalya DANILEVICH

On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, Minsk State Art College named after. A. Glebova, better known by the slightly familiar name “Glebovka,” presented a wonderful gift to all current and future students.

A brand new “Window” was opened in one of the halls of the educational institution - a modern exhibition space where not only the best students and teachers can present their works, but also recognized masters visual arts. An SB correspondent talks about the new exhibition space.

For the significant anniversary, which Glebovka celebrated throughout 2017, the college (or “school,” as the older generation of sculptors and artists calls it in the old fashioned way) began back in 2016. The old house on Petrusya Brovki Street, where the student workshops moved almost 10 years ago, has undergone extensive renovations. Alas, the country’s most famous forge of artistic personnel still does not have its own premises. Since the historical building in which Glebovka was once located was declared unsafe and demolished in 2008, students and teachers have been forced to wander throughout Minsk. Throughout 2009, the workshops were “housed” in three different points- on the Minsk streets of Mendeleev, Rafiev and Bogdanovich. A little later, the administration found an empty premises on the street. Petrusya Brovka - that’s where they moved.

Despite years of cramped conditions, the director of the educational institution, Alexander Shantarovich, remains in good spirits and tries to equip the building to the maximum and settle into the walls that Glebovka has now. He is confident that his own art gallery is an important step towards a compromise between “our” and “foreign” territory of the college:

Director of Glebovka Alexander Shantarovich and professor Vladimir Zinkevich (right).

When exactly will we grow up? new area, it's hard to say. Everyone thought and hoped that if not this year, then next year. Not next year, but in a year... But almost 10 years have passed, hundreds of talented guys have graduated from these walls. We long years exhibited their works at various venues - from the art gallery of Mikhail Savitsky (by the way, our graduate) to the New Theater and the Theater of Belarusian Drama. But over time, we realized that we needed a personal exhibition space. In which we would not be guests, but full owners.

The new gallery, Alexander Valerievich has no doubt, will change artistic life“Glebovki” is for the better. It’s not for nothing that the spacious white hall was called “Window”:

On the one hand, this is a window that will give our children the opportunity to go out into the world and show their creativity to the entire cultural world. On the other hand, through our window students will be able to look into the work of great artists who will be exhibiting with us. Moreover, we will invite graduates of not only Glebovka, but also other educational institutions.

It is planned that over time the new gallery will house part of the college’s rich art fund. Now it has almost 2.5 thousand works - enough for several large art galleries. The earliest surviving one, by the artist (and also the first director of the Minsk art school) Ivan Krasnevsky, is dated 1953. So far it is shown only to the most dear guests - it is a kind of “Gleb” relic. But there is nothing here at all about the works of Alexei Glebov, whose name the college bears since 1969. More precisely, just one: the original “Swimmer” was given as a gift by the master’s son.

Among the famous graduates of Glebovka are all those whose names in Belarusian Soviet art have long become iconic: Mikhail Savitsky and Leonid Shchemelev, Georgy Poplavsky and Mai Dantzig, Vasily Tsvirko and Ivan Misko, Arlen Kashkurevich and Viktor Gromyko. Head of the Department of Monumental and Decorative Art Belarusian Academy arts Vladimir Zinkevich is nostalgic:

I remember my admission in the mid-1960s. It was the only school in the country that trained specialists in fine and decorative arts. The competition is crazy, 20 people per place. I came to enroll, but opera house There is already a huge crowd: everyone wanted to come here to study. I entered right away, and a new time in my life began... At the opening of the gallery, I seemed to plunge back into the years of my youth. The quality of work and attitude towards creativity have been preserved, the level of work is the highest. "Glebovka" was, is and will be a school of serious quality education, but with its own special creative atmosphere.

In the workshop of another famous Glebovka graduate, folk artist Vasily Sharangovich, it still hangs graduation work. Daughter of a master, director of the National Center contemporary arts Natalya Sharangovich says:

My father is very proud of this landscape. And he considers it one of his best, despite the fact that it was written back in student years. The school, both then and today, is high level performing skills, coupled with long-term traditions of education.

BY THE WAY

Not long ago, the college fund was replenished with a sketch of a monument to Francis Skaryna erected in Polotsk. Glebov’s son, Alexander Alekseevich, presented the drawing after the scientific and practical conference “The Legacy of Francysk Skaryna.”