In June 1838 Shevchenko settled in an apartment in the house number 100 of the second quarter of Vasyl’evsky Island, not far from the Academy of Arts.[53] But he mostly spent time at the Academy and in K. Bryullov’s studio. Due to the reorganization of the Academy of Arts in 1840, the teaching of general education disciplines was discontinued. All students attended only special classes, of which there were six: two drawing classes, where students painted from original prints; two plaster classes, in one of which they painted from plaster heads and in the other from plaster figures; life classes, where they painted from models; and painting classes, where they made oil sketches.[52] Shevchenko came to the Academy with a fairly high level of preparation.[52] He took his first exams in the class of “plaster figures.” The previous stage of training – drawing from “originals” and “gypsum heads” – was completed by him independently, even before entering the Academy, with the help of his artist friends (I. Soshenko, A. Mokrytskyi and others) and as an outside student of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists.”[52][54] Shevchenko also painted from “gypsum heads” before his release from serfdom in the drawing class of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists and at the Academy of Arts.
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In June 1838 Shevchenko settled in an apartment in the house number 100 of the second quarter of Vasyl’evsky Island, not far from the Academy of Arts.[53] But he mostly spent time at the Academy and in K. Bryullov’s studio. Due to the reorganization of the Academy of Arts in 1840, the teaching of general education disciplines was discontinued. All students attended only special classes, of which there were six: two drawing classes, where students painted from original prints; two plaster classes, in one of which they painted from plaster heads and in the other from plaster figures; life classes, where they painted from models; and painting classes, where they made oil sketches.[52] Shevchenko came to the Academy with a fairly high level of preparation.[52] He took his first exams in the class of “plaster figures.” The previous stage of training – drawing from “originals” and “gypsum heads” – was completed by him independently, even before entering the Academy, with the help of his artist friends (I. Soshenko, A. Mokrytskyi and others) and as an outside student of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists.”[52][54] Shevchenko also painted from “gypsum heads” before his release from serfdom in the drawing class of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists and at the Academy of Arts.
In June 1838 Shevchenko settled in an apartment in the house number 100 of the second quarter of Vasyl’evsky Island, not far from the Academy of Arts.[53] But he mostly spent time at the Academy and in K. Bryullov’s studio. Due to the reorganization of the Academy of Arts in 1840, the teaching of general education disciplines was discontinued. All students attended only special classes, of which there were six: two drawing classes, where students painted from original prints; two plaster classes, in one of which they painted from plaster heads and in the other from plaster figures; life classes, where they painted from models; and painting classes, where they made oil sketches.[52] Shevchenko came to the Academy with a fairly high level of preparation.[52] He took his first exams in the class of “plaster figures.” The previous stage of training – drawing from “originals” and “gypsum heads” – was completed by him independently, even before entering the Academy, with the help of his artist friends (I. Soshenko, A. Mokrytskyi and others) and as an outside student of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists.”[52][54] Shevchenko also painted from “gypsum heads” before his release from serfdom in the drawing class of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists and at the Academy of Arts.