TY - BOOK AU - Mogilevtsev,V.A. TI - Fundamentals of composition: textbook SN - 9785904957087 AV - N7430 .M63 2018 PY - 2018///. CY - Saint Petersburg, Russia PB - 4art KW - Sankt-Peterburgskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ institut zhivopisi, skulʹptury i arkhitektury imeni I.E. Repina. KW - Composition (Art) KW - Technique. KW - Academic art, Russian N1 - Text and illustrations by Vladimir Mogilevtsev; translated from the Russian by Anna Edwards.; Color Patch and Plane; -- Elements of Visual Design in Composition; -- Developing the Sketch; -- Working on the Painting. N2 - "In this book, the author, on the basis of his work as an artist and his experience as an instructor, aims to understand and explain how a painting is born. With works by outstanding Russian and international artists as examples, he reveals the process of preparing sketches and discusses the importance of collecting reference material when creating a realistic work of art. V.A. Mogilevtsev introduces the reader to the elements of visual design and talks about the most important of them. The text is accompanied by a large number of illustrations." --V.S. Pesikov, People's Artist of Russia. ER -