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Krasnopresnenskaya children's art school was founded in 1935. The basis of the teaching staff of this educational institution is its graduates. The school is strong in its traditions in the field of aesthetic education and art education. This feature, along with the high quality of education, has provided the educational institution with popularity and prestigious status.
The learning process is carried out on the basis of programs created by the school teachers. They are based on live communication with children, creative work, the development of students' skills of independent and figurative thinking. Teachers strive to develop a love of art in their students. Much attention is paid to national culture. The educational process includes programs of joint work with the Union of Artists and the country's leading creative universities.
The Krasnopresnenskaya Art School has a museum that houses the works of famous graduates and other valuable exhibits. Electives are organized: graphic illustration, the basics of oil painting, psychological perception of color, design and modeling of a costume, ceramics, associative composition, painting on fabric, etc.
Krasnopresnenskaya Children's Art School (KDKHSH) is the oldest and one of the most famous children's art schools in Moscow and Russia. 2010 marks 75 years since its foundation.
The school was founded in the fall of 1935 on the initiative of a group of enthusiastic artists headed by a graduate of VKHUTEMAS Natalia Viktorovna Bushkevich, its first director. Classes were held in the old Nebolsins mansion on B. Sadovaya near the Planetarium.
Old school at the planetarium
During the day, children worked here, and in the evening famous Moscow artists painted. Naturally, this neighborhood had a beneficial effect on the guys. Even in the harsh years of the war, the studio school did not stop its work, and the warm light of the windows attracted new students.
School staff. In the center - director N.V. Bushkevich, behind - R.A. Solomakhin.
(1950s)
In 1943, the school was given the status of a city art school with a 10-year cycle of study and the only one in the system of the USSR Ministry of Education. At that time (30s, 40s, 50s), highly qualified artist-teachers worked at the school, who devoted a lot of effort and talent to the establishment and development of the school, contributed to the growth of its authority.
In the workshop of the teacher I. I. Tyomkin
Many famous people of art and culture were friends of the school: S. Konenkov, V. Mukhina, Kukryniksy, S. Gerasimov, A. Barto, B. Likhachev and many others. For many years, Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar took care of the school.
Agnia Barto with school students. 1978 year
In the early 50s, due to the difficult situation of the school, attempts were made to close the educational institution. The USSR Academy of Arts, the Union of Artists, public organizations and cultural workers defended the unique educational institution. And as a result, the future of the school was considered at the meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1952. The order signed by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR I.V. Stalin: "... to keep the city art school as an exception ...".
This is essentially the second birth of the school. During these years, the school was transferred to the subordination of the Education Department of the Soviet district of Moscow, later renamed Krasnopresnensky.
High school students. 1950s
In the early 60s, the team of school teachers was replenished with young specialists, former school graduates. In 1961, Roman Arsenievich Solomakhin became the head of the school, having worked as a director for 43 years. The new teaching staff preserved and developed the traditions of the school, introduced new ideas into the process of artistic education and training.
From left to right: Dubrovin V.M., Antonov I.A., Irodov Yu.S., Solomakhin R.A.,
Zinkovsky A.I., Filippov O.F. in the staff room. 1972 year
The 70s are marked by a burst of creative activity. The school was attended by former students of the teachers of the sixties. This fusion of experience and creative energy gave a new impetus to the life of the school. Close creative ties have been established with the Union of Artists of the USSR, with the House of Friendship with the peoples of foreign countries, with many creative and public organizations.
Specialists from foreign countries have become frequent guests at the art school. Leading teachers, the staff preserved and developed the traditions of the school, introduced new ideas into the process of artistic education and training. During this period, the school staff entered the international arena. For the first time, drawings of Soviet children, students of an art school, were exhibited at international exhibitions and competitions of children's creativity. This period coincided with the work in the building on the street. Klimashkina (formerly Kurbatovsky lane).
School building on Klimashkina street
In 1974, the children received a full-fledged building on the street. Krasin, 27 (formerly secondary school).
A number of leading teachers of the school became members of the Union of Artists of the USSR, in parallel with the pedagogical, they were active in creative and social activities, including in the aesthetic commissions of the Union of Artists. It was during this period that the school became known as Krasnopresnenskaya. The school made a significant contribution to the cultural life of Moscow and the country.
In the workshop of the teacher of sculpture Shipovskaya V.N. 1960s
The team has accumulated a wealth of experience in the field of art education and aesthetic education of children and youth.
The school's method of work was based on the preservation and development of the traditions of Russian and world art with the use of modern forms of training and education, which was facilitated by close creative and methodological contacts with the Institute of Art Education of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
The school became a kind of training ground for new programs. The school's experience formed the basis for the creation of a number of art schools in the country.
In 1974, at a meeting of the Collegium of the USSR Ministry of Education, the work of the art school was heard and approved. In its decision, the Collegium noted the positive role of the school in education, stressed the need to expand the experience of its work throughout the country.
With the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the art school did not lose its creative and pedagogical potential, found the strength to survive in a difficult political and economic situation, retained the best qualities of the Soviet school of art education and training, and began to introduce new modern forms of education. The activity of the school in the field of popularizing children's creativity has expanded significantly. In essence, the KDHSH has become one of the leaders of Moscow and the Central District among the institutions of children's art education.
Painting classes. Teacher A.A. Zuev 1998 year
The school cooperates with many museums in Moscow, magazines (especially with the "Young Artist"), mass media, ministries and departments, unions of artists of Russia and Moscow, the Academy of Education of the Russian Federation. The school staff received a lot of help and support from the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, the Education Department, and the Presnya Administration. This period in the life of the school coincided with the work as the deputy director of its former graduate Viktor Mikhailovich Dubrovin, who headed the school in 2004.
In 2006, Evgenia Anatolyevna Shulyak, a former school graduate, became the director of the KDHSH.
Evgenia Anatolyevna came to work at the KDHSH in 1990 as a teacher (she was a drawing methodologist, deputy for exhibition activities).
Krasnopresnenskaya children's art school has its own pronounced creative face, which is enriched and improved over the years.
Tapestry work in a textile workshop
Over its 75-year history, the art school has graduated thousands of students who have become famous figures of culture and art, have shown themselves in science and education. The works of the schoolchildren were exhibited in more than 50 countries of the world, were highly appreciated at competitions of children's creativity both in the country and far beyond its borders, marked with numerous prizes, awards, diplomas. In 2004, the school's staff was awarded the main prize of the Young Talents of Muscovy Festival - Girl on a Ball.
Currently, the school continues the traditions of its predecessors, expands the directions of art education, introduces new modern methods and technologies. At school, along with the basic basic disciplines of drawing, painting and composition, students improve and gain invaluable experience in sculpture, arts and crafts, computer graphics, expand their horizons in art studies.
Viewing sketches of diplomas. KDHSH teachers
The uniqueness of the art school lies in its ability to carry out a continuous cycle of education for 11 years from the age of 6 to the child's graduation from high school. Graduates of the school in the last year of study carry out their thesis, which should be the result of many years of creative work of the student. The teaching staff does not set itself the task of making all pupils artists. But instilling love for art, culture, expanding the boundaries of knowledge, teaching the basics of visual literacy and instilling in your students feelings of love for the Motherland, national culture - this is the main thing that unites the entire staff of the school.
At the same time, in the senior grades, specialized training is introduced to guide students in choosing a future profession.
In modern conditions, it is important to strive to make education as accessible as possible for different strata of the population, therefore, almost everyone who wants to join the beautiful is admitted to school. Even if the child first picked up a pencil or brush and finds it difficult to adapt to the requirements of the school, he has the opportunity to acquire the missing skills in the preparatory group, and then enter the class that is appropriate for his age.
The matured pupils of the school are leaving, new young talents come to replace them, and together with them, despite their considerable age, the art school is also getting younger.
For merits in the development of national culture and education, many teachers and school staff were awarded government and departmental awards. The honorary titles were awarded: Gurvich Iosif Mikhailovich - Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Solomakhin Roman Arsenievich - Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, Stop Genrikh Tadeushevich - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Glukhov Viktor Alexandrovich - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Pavlov Oleg Borisovich - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation RF architect.
