The process of artistic creation (1979)

The face of the sculpture by V. Mayakovsky.

Notepad and fountain pen on the desk.

Paperweight, ashtray, notepad, desk calendar, books on the desk in the Mayakovsky apartment-museum (panorama).

Interior of a room in the Mayakovsky museum.

Research in the laboratory.

The process of a chemical reaction.

Engineers conduct research in the field of electronics.

Assembling an engine at a factory, the face of a worker.

The organist's hands on the keys.

A sculptor at work in the workshop.

A ballerina performs a solo part.

Cover of the book by G. Girginov "Science and Creativity".

Books devoted to the study of the creative process, covers and titles of books in Russian and foreign languages.

Interior view of the computing center.

Examples of modeling the creative process using cybernetic technology.

A model during a session in a sculpture studio, students of the sculpture department at work.

Publications dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812. Cover of the novel by L.N. Tolstoy "War and Peace".

Photograph of L. N. Tolstoy at his desk.

Photograph of F. I. Shalyapin.

Portraits of Shalyapin by Kustodiev, Serov, Korovin.

Sound engineer at the control panel.

Installing a record on a turntable.

Photograph of reader V. Yakhontov at the microphone, the record is spinning, an excerpt from the drama "Mozart and Salieri" performed by him is heard in the background.

Listening to a magnetic recording of the same text performed by D. Zhuravlev, photograph of Zhuravlev.

Young artists are looking for a suitable location, a summer countryside landscape (panorama).

Artists paint sketches in the open air, faces of young artists.

An almost finished sketch.

Photo portraits of the writer I. Bunin, tree branches bend in the wind.

Musical score created by P. I. Tchaikovsky, marks on music paper, corrections by the composer's hand.

Reflections of trees on the surface of the water.

Views of an autumn park.

Artist-painter Moiseenko E.E. sits on a fallen tree trunk and makes sketches in a notebook.

Moiseenko in his studio talks about how the idea for a work of art comes to him, about the sequence of the emergence of an artistic idea, lists the circumstances of the emergence and formation of the idea directly in the artist (synchronously).

Composer B. I. Tishchenko is working on his next piece.

Tishchenko talks about the stages of the composer's artistic conception, about the emergence of a musical thought (synchronously and behind the scenes), and demonstrates a music notebook with sketches of musical concepts.

Tishchenko demonstrates his musical "sketches".

Glass artist B. A. Smirnov talks about various images accumulated throughout his life, about their emergence, about the internal content of a piece, its meaning, the idea that must be conveyed to the viewer (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Works of colored glass on the shelves in Smirnov's workshop.

Smirnov demonstrates a glass composition he created, explains its idea and symbols, talks about the meaning of symbols in fine art (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Illustrations in a book about wood painting.

Architect I. N. Kuskov at work.

Notebook sheets with architectural sketches.

Kuskov talks about the stages of the emergence of a creative concept in architecture as opposed to other types of art, about receiving a functional order, about the influence of the environment and urban planning situation on the artistic concept, demonstrates the project of the Admiral Makarov Higher Naval Engineering School in Strelna, talks about the work on the project, about the compositional structure of the project (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Panorama of a part of the bay in Strelna, ships at the berths.

View of the fountains of Peterhof.

Panorama of the complex of the Constantine Palace and Strelna Park.

Coastal landscapes of Strelna.

Architectural sketches and drafts of the project.

The artist creating a sketch.

Creation of a sculpture, the molding process.

Smirnov at a glass-processing machine.

The artist on sketches.

Tishchenko writes music.

Sketches and sketches for Surikov's painting "Boyarynya Morozova".

Tishchenko talks about developing an artistic concept in music, talks about the "thematic grain" in creating a piece of music, and about the stages of working on a piece of music (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Sheets of the score of the Fourth String Quartet.

Tishchenko plays fragments of the future piece on the piano.

Smirnov works with a glassblower.

Smirnov talks about developing an idea for the composition of his glass pieces, about the stages of working on the piece, and talks about working on the compositions "Feast" and "Golden Wedding" (synchronously and behind the scenes).

A composition of two glass teapots created by Smirnov.

The composition "Feast" created by Smirnov.

Sketches for the composition "Golden Wedding", finished fragments of the composition.

The process of processing a glass part of the composition on a machine, applying and polishing the pattern.

Fragments of one of the glass compositions.

One of the sketches for the composition.

The process of processing glass figures.

View of a part of the general plan of the architectural project.

Architect Kuskov talks about the stages of developing an architectural concept, about the search along the way from the concept’s origin to its embodiment in the project, talks about the elements and components of the composition of the general plan (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Fragments of the drawing of the general plan of the project.

View of the model of the future architectural complex.

Sketches of one of the paintings by the artist Moiseenko.

Moiseenko talks about the stages of creating a work, from the concept to the completed painting, about the changes and variations during the creation of the painting, talks about the stages of creating the painting “Cherry”, about the idea and meaning of the painting (synchronously and behind the scenes).

Sketches for the painting.

Fragments of the finished painting.

Painting on the wall.

The artist’s sketches for the paintings.

The hands of a sculptor kneading the material for modeling.

The hand of a composer, cleaning with a blade an icon in the score of a musical work he is creating.

Manuscripts of poems by A.S. Pushkin with his portrait and sketches by the poet.

Pages from one of the editions of "Eugene Onegin".

Manuscripts of Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina".

Photo portrait of Tolstoy.

Antique sculpture of Pygmalion and Galatea.

Notebooks with written sheets of paper on the table.

Photographs of people reading books, looking at paintings and sculptures.

Fragments of paintings by R. Guttuso, Siqueiros, Diego Rivera.

Photo portrait of Pablo Picasso.

Sculpture by V.V. Mayakovsky.

Paintings by Kustodiev "Bolshevik", Deineka "In Defense of Petrograd".

Fragments of paintings by Soviet artists, painted in the style of socialist realism.

Film director Yu.

Ya.

Raizman on the set of the feature film "Strange Woman".

View of the set in the waiting room of the station, Raizman gives instructions to the actress (from above).

The lighting devices come on.

Raizman directs the filming, looking into the eyepiece of the camera.

The start of filming another take.

The frame counter is working.

An episode of filming on the street, Raizman directs the filming.

Composer Shchedrin R.K. and conductor Svetlanov E.F. during a rehearsal, Shchedrin gives instructions to the orchestra.

Svetlanov gives instructions to the orchestra.

The orchestra begins to perform Shchedrin's piece, Svetlanov conducts.

The orchestra during a rehearsal.

The title of the musical score of the ballet "The Seagull".

Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya during a rehearsal of the solo part.

The seagull in flight.