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IGOR V. BABAILOV
Hon.RAA, KStA, MFA (Ph.D), D.Litt (Honoris Causa)
Famous Teachers
DIRECT 'Teacher~Student' ACADEMIC LINEAGE
Igor Babailov painted his very first portrait at the age of four (4) and received his first lessons in art from his father, Valery Babailov, who was the student of renowned artist Aleksey Kholmogorov.
Child prodigy, Igor Babailov began his FORMAL art education at the age of nine (9) and, in the span of sixteen years (1974-1990), he attained the highest levels of the academic art education, receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree, MFA (official equivalent to Ph.D. in the U.S.) under the acclaimed Russian Academy of Arts (est.1757) that gave the world many outstanding artists.
Through a chain of professors in his academic ancestry, Igor Babailov belongs to the Academic Lineage of the world-famous Masters of Portraiture, and he is a third generation direct descendant student of the great Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov.
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Serov
Yuon
Levitan
Repin
Chistyakov
Arkhipov
Kulikov
Kramskoi
Babailov
Kholmogorov
Tsyplakov
Danilichev
Zabelin
Chirkov
Kibrik
Pavlov
Korin
Korovin
Gerasimov
Deineka
Shatsky
Babailov
International Students of Igor V. Babailov
Nota bene:
The academic lineage herein stands far beyond inspirational moments of occasional interactions with master-artists (i.e. attending their public portrait demonstrations) and/or inspirational stories of such, told by art-mentors, friends, or acquaintances.
This lineage represents the unbroken chain of professors who served as the academic mentors of each other in the system of the academic curriculum through consecutive lessons, passed on DIRECTLY from Teacher to Student during a sustained period of time of formal academic education that resulted in earning a terminal Fine Art degree
Igor V. Babailov, Hon. RAA, ellected Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts (est.1757) shares his expertise of the highest fine art education and academic credentials with his fellow professional artists and art students in the U.S., Canada, Italy, Russia and around the globe.
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