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Admission Educational Programmes Undergraduate

Easel Painting

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.

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
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.

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The programme descriptions for the 2025/2026 academic year are currently being updated. Information regarding admissions for the 2025/2026 academic year is available on the St Petersburg University Admissions Committee website.

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