I hope that the excerpts from the manuscripts Stilianudi Alexander Nikolaevich (1868-1948) of the Odessa drawing school will raise you up
... Garmanin impressed us, boys, their masterpieces.
He, incidentally, with friends, lovers used, the
shaft secret fixative for alcohol, stocking up for Iorini
fixing the images of his students and kept in the cupboard in the classroom.
... Another interesting type was the same overgrown, but the noble
HYDRATED poor-populist Dzerkovsky. He wore no underwear, and often
through the torn clothes came through to the impropriety of his sinful body ...
But he did not lose heart: a lot of philosophizing, a martyr to art, and ho -
Thee loved him to oblivion, but did not use any reciprocity.
... The most in school until the period of reform, it was Adolf Ost -
Romenskyi. I remember how nasty prank carried out by our pranksters:
leaving on vacation from the Academy, he left the fold of his canvases
with an artist's model for storage comrades. One of his comrades, done in canvas hole
where the mouth artist's model, went to a party for friends and academics,
among other jokes, showed live pictures. Two were kept on the sides
huge canvas depicting the naked artist's model, and the third, becoming a canvas,
slips through a hole in his tongue and spit them in different directions.
... Some of my colleagues at school were over-ripe maidens: Frevil, Bu -
nogradova, Boleslavsky. This last, our rake teased his -
mi pranks. Women in the still life class were engaged separately from
us, as it there were many, but during the transition to drawing with the female
nature they worked with us. And then our dummy, under the pretext that hot
began to drop their coats and exchanging suggestive jokes.
Of course, this all happened in the absence of the teacher.
... Loud were the evenings when they return home. There was a joker
(Sarpani): he suddenly, as if stumbling, falling under the feet of walkers
Deribasovskoy maidens and produced in their ranks in turmoil.