Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts

DEPARTMENT
OF SCULPTURE

HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
INERNATIONAL ACTIVITY

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The Department of Sculpture is the modern institution centered on sculpture research and creation.
Early faculty members were all master artists who passed on their talents to generations of students, creating a tradition of sculpture excellence.

Among the students of the department are such famous artists as Academician M. Lysenko, National Artist of Ukraine V. Agibalov, National Artist of Azerbaijan I. Zeynalov, National Artist of Kazakhstan I. Naurzbayev and others.
Many of the students of the department became members of the creative unions, gained recognition among sculptural admirers in Ukraine and abroad, work as artists and teachers in educational institutions of artistic education.
The department carries out preparation of the two-level system: bachelor, master’s degree.

Address: KSADA, 8 Mystetstv St,
E-mail: sculpturakdadm@ukr.net
Telephone: +38 (057) 706-03-28

PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYMENT FIELDS:

Сreation of objects of monumental sculpture such as: memorials, busts, memorial plaques, symbolic complexes;
Decoration of exteriors and interiors of architectural constructions;
Making creative works in the field of small plastics (miniatures), the creation of interior compositions, symbolic compositions, the development of garden and park sculpture and urban sculpture;
The creation of works from different materials, both classical and modern (wood, stone, metal, glass, polymer masses);
Teaching at children’s specialized schools and educational institutions 2, 3, 4 levels of accreditation.

CURRICULUM: MAJOR SKILLS

the foundations of academic sculpture;
the basis of the composition;
the study of techniques and technologies for the artistic processing of sculptural materials;
the art of woodcarving;
the art of carving on stone;
classical techniques of artistic casting;
creation of creative works of metal by welding;
creation of creative works on combined materials;
composition of small plastic;
tinterior and symbolic composition;
garden and park composition and composition in the urban environment;
designing of architectural, graphic-mock binding of sculptural composite solutions taking into account the interaction of the sculptural composition with the environment;
expansion of the individual world outlook and development of the author's intellectual style and manner of execution of compositional ideas in the sculptural composition;
the expansion of compositional and spatial thinking, which will further work on 3D projects.