// To buy Russian edition visit our website 4-art.org // ---- After a big success of publication on academic drawing (Fundamentals of Drawing, ISBN: 978-5904957056), a leading art professor at the Russian Academy of Arts, Prof. V.A. Mogilevtsev has managed to create yet another important book on art fundamentals. This textbook follows the same structure as its predecessor, while offering a complete overview on academic painting, a discipline that is built on traditional art education. The result of the author's four years of hard work is this well-illustrated book with excellent visual explanations that include tables, studies and paintings by old masters. The Fundamentals of Painting presents a classical system of teaching while illustrating each stage of work in very laconic, straight to the point text. The following four subjects of painting are covered: 1. Portrait, 2. Nude figure, 3. Portrait with Hands, 4. Copying. -- About Author: V. A. Mogilevtsev is a leading professor and a Head of the Drawing Department at the Russian Academy of Arts (aka Repin Institute), where he is teaching senior students since 1995. In 2011, Professor Mogilevtsev received Gold and Silver Medals for his teaching achievements and for his books Fundamentals of Drawing (ISBN: 978-5904957056) and Academic Drawings and Sketches (ISBN: 978-5904957018).