Authors

Alekseev Evgeny P., Karaev Alexey B.
«Organized creative energy»: Ural animation. Towards the problem of identifying the phenomenon of the school

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (95) September, 2026

Ural animation is considered through the use of the category school. Criteria typical for art (animation) schools are analyzed, including place and time of origin, the role of a particular master or group of masters, common artistic traditions, and technological and stylistic techniques. Connections between the Ural animators and the teaching staff of the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors (F. Khitruk, Y. Norstein) are noted. Judgments and opinions of artists and film critics are given. It is suggested that Ural animation has a number of characteristics of a school, but at the same time differs from traditional schools in stylistic diversity, independence and desire for experimentation.

Alekseev Evgeny P.
THE URAL PERIOD IN THE CREATIVITY OF ALEXANDER PARAMONOV. 1905–1928

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №4 (76) December, 2021

Based on archival documents and memoirs of contemporaries, the article expounds on the specifics of the creative and pedagogical activities of the talented graphic artist and painter A.N. Paramonov and reviews this master’s works created in the 1900s - 1920s. His active public position and innovative approaches to teaching determined his contribution to the development of the Yekaterinburg Industrial Art School. During the difficult period of the revolutionary transformations, the master remained faithful to the traditional teaching methods at the Yekaterinburg Free State Art Workshops (ESGHM) and the Ural Practical Art Institute (UKHPI). Thanks to the authority of A. Paramonov, the traditions of decorative and applied art were revived at the Ural Art College (UKHT). Being the leader of local artistic life, A.Paramonov united young painters and graphic artists around him, contributing to the formation of the Ural branch of the AHRR.