So does the modern artist to be able to draw?

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Memoirs of Pavel Chistyakov. (Artist, teacher).
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"When he came to the studio, - told Grabar, - brand new in an ecstatic mood sit in front of the model and began to paint her, and sometimes even write. Was Chistyakov, and when the queue reaches him, the teacher will analyze every millimeter started the scene, with his withering criticism accompanied by such jokes, epithets, smiles and grimaces that the poor were thrown into a cold sweat and he was ready to sink with shame and embarrassment to the underworld .

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In conclusion, Chistyakov recommended to quit yet and thinking about art and limited to one painting, moreover, not with living nature, which he still does not overpower, or even with gypsum, and "from scratch". He threw a stool in front of him a pencil and said: "Draw a pencil here, it will be easier to artist's model, and benefit from it much longer ..." The next evening he was again Chistyakov, within ten minutes managed to prove the "brand new" first-hand that he does not know how to draw and simple pencil. "No, - he said to him, - a pencil, then you have trudnenek, have a simpler place. And put children's blocks. "
Through its system of Chistyakov educated students in respect to the picture - first principle of art - and taught them to believe that the art does not and can not be anything easy, that "everything is equally difficult, all equally interesting, important and exciting." He was taught to look at the painting not as entertainment, as well as the severe and exact science, which has its own laws, "slim and beautiful »......
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  Disciples Chistyakov Pavel Petrovich (1832-1919gg.) Were: Repin, Polenov, Surikov, Vasnetsov, Vrubel, Serov, Borisov-Musatov, and many other artist.