The film tells about the theory of painting, its components. Honored Worker of Culture of the USSR V.A. Pokrovsky tells about painting as an art form and its history.
Artist V. A. Pokrovsky in his apartment.
Pokrovsky takes a hat from the refrigerator, puts it on.
Pokrovsky takes an easel and leaves the apartment.
Interiors of Pokrovsky's apartment.
An old photograph of Pokrovsky's relatives, with Pokrovsky's thoughts on painting and artists heard in the background.
Photo portraits of Pokrovsky in different years.
Pokrovsky sketching in winter.
Pokrovsky painting a winter cityscape in Leningrad.
Engravings and paintings of the 19th - early 20th centuries.
Pokrovsky sketching.
Photographs of the events of March 1917 in Petrograd.
Pokrovsky at his easel on the Field of Mars.
Pokrovsky makes a sketch from his easel.
A clean sheet of paper on the easel stand.
The outlines of objects appear on a clean sheet of paper (animation).
A still life appears on the sheet, the objects acquire color (animation).
Examples of composition, light and shade in the paintings in Pokrovsky's house.
Paintings on the walls of the rooms in Pokrovsky's apartment.
Moving furniture in one of the rooms (animation).
A diagram demonstrating the perception of space by the human eye (animation).
An image of a three-dimensional object on a plane in three projections.
Examples of the arrangement of the composition and the transfer of space on a plane in the paintings of artists of Ancient Egypt.
Images of people in the paintings of ancient Egyptian artists.
Paintings by Chinese artists created according to the laws of parallel perspective.
Symbolism in the paintings of Chinese artists.
Scheme of reverse perspective (animation). "Trinity" by Andrei Rublev indicating the lines of reverse perspective (animation).
Fragments of ancient Russian icons.
Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper" with a linear perspective of the background.
Paintings by artists of the Renaissance, the image of nature in paintings.
Paintings by European artists dedicated to the development of sciences and geographical discoveries.
Paintings on religious subjects.
Images of flowers and fruits in paintings.
Portrait of a young man.
Portraits and images of groups of people in paintings of the Renaissance.
Graphic portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
Painting depicting the Madonna and Child, rendering volumes by chiaroscuro.
Pokrovsky Vladimir Alexandrovich - artist
1985
Leningrad
Winter
Self-portrait of Titian.
Titian's paintings on the Gospel theme using brushstrokes of varying intensity to achieve the effect of volume.
Paintings by Titian and Perugino "Saint Sebastian".
Paintings by 17th-century artists on mythological themes.
Paintings of historical and genre scenes.
Landscapes of the 17th century.
Self-portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn.
Fragments of Rembrandt's painting "The Return of the Prodigal Son".
Paintings by 18th-century artists - Watteau, Gainsborough, landscapes by Lorraine, plot compositions by Poussin.
Paintings written in the style of classicism.
Paintings depicting the events of the Great French Revolution.
Self-portrait of the French artist Eugene Delacroix.
Paintings by Delacroix, including "The Raft of the Medusa" and "Liberty on the Barricades".
Paintings by the French artist Honore Daumier.
Photography of Russian Itinerant artists.
Paintings by the Itinerant artists depicting the everyday life of ordinary people.
Photography of French impressionist artists.
Self-portraits of Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet.
Paintings by impressionist artists, the light and color scheme in the paintings.
Pokrovsky at home takes a book out of the closet, a panorama of paintings on the wall.
Paintings on the walls of one of the rooms.
Landscapes and still lifes by Cezanne.
Self-portrait of Paul Cezanne.
Paintings and self-portrait of Van Gogh.
Paintings by Paul Gauguin depicting the inhabitants of Tahiti.
Self-portrait of Gauguin.
Self-portrait of Henri Matisse.
Matisse's paintings, fragments of paintings.
Works by abstract artists.
Paintings by Soviet artists, reflecting the events of the October Revolution and the Civil War.
Paintings by K. Petrov-Vodkin.
Paintings written in the style of socialist realism on the themes of the Great Patriotic War, on industrial and everyday themes.
Pokrovsky in the kitchen washes the valley under the tap, fills it with water.
Pokrovsky's face.
Drops from the tap fall into the water.
Drops fall into the water, paintings of various eras and genres appear (combined photography).
Pokrovsky Vladimir Alexandrovich - artist
1985
Leningrad