# Easel Painting

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54.05.03 
*In English and Russian*

Level of education Specialist

Type of instruction Full-time

Duration 6 years

Programme description

The specialist’s programme ‘Easel Painting’ is designed to train artists with fundamental knowledge of the theory and history of arts, and with professional skills and creative techniques according to their specialisation. They will have: wide and independent artistic thinking; an active attitude to life; and the ability to interpret certain facts of culture, and identify themselves in the contemporary socio-cultural space.

Upon completion of the programme, graduates are awarded the additional qualification ‘Drawing Teacher’ and ‘Teacher of Additional Education’.

Main courses

- Drawing
- Painting
- Composition
- Perspective
- Surface Anatomy
- Painting Techniques and Painting Materials
- History of Foreign Art and Culture
- History of Russian Art and Culture
- Computer Graphics
- Copying of Easel Painting Works
- Methods and Technology of Monumental Painting
- Methods of Teaching Visual Arts
- Practical Training (Teaching)

Teaching staff

- Ivan Uralov, Honoured Artist, Professor, creator of numerous monumental artworks
- Olga Denisenko, a painter who has participated in numerous international and Russian workshops and exhibitions
- Tatiana Laska, a muralist who has led multiple projects in the field of cultural heritage preservation

Our advantages

- The programme is designed to form competences, a set of knowledge and skills that ensure the training of artists for professional artistic activities through the system of historically developed and meaningful for Russian culture teaching programmes
- Graduates of the programme are ready to: create independent, unique, aesthetically perfect works of art using modern visual, creative production and information technologies; as well as participate in a group creative process

Career opportunities

**Scope of graduates’ professional activities**

- designing projects related to various types of fine arts;
- expert advice and professional examination of projects related to various types of fine arts;
- preparing and creating copyright works of fine art;
- teaching activities in the field of professional training, vocational education and continuing professional education.

[This webpage may contain outdated information. The programme descriptions and admission requirements for the 2026/2027 academic year are currently being updated. For the latest information on 2026/2027 admission, please visit the Admissions Office website.](https://abiturient.spbu.ru/en/)

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