There, the phrase "academic artists" it, I think, can be widely understood

To me, academic painting now is that her writing professor, and that they are positioned as an academic school and expose it to the academic exhibitions, not just anywhere. Academy since changed the face of socialist realism, the training remained the same and the traditional job, but now an independent painting masters Stramit to greater individualism. And if we consider that E. Moiseenko - guru among them, and from painting to expect the same.
Say Hamid Savkuev, S. Repin, Kravtsov - the brightest, the other academic painting in St. Petersburg there
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