Basic Course
A preliminary basic course was an important part of the new teaching method that was developed at Vkhutemas, and was made compulsory for all students, regardless of their future specialization. This was based on a combination of scientific and artistic disciplines. During the basic course, students had to learn the language of plastic forms, and chromatics. Drawing was considered a foundation of the plastic arts, and students investigated relationships between color and form, and the principles of spatial composition. Akin to the Bauhaus's basic course, which all first year students were required to attend, it gave a more abstract foundation to the technical work in the studios. In the early 1920s this basic course consisted of the following:
- the maximal influence of color (given by Lyubov Popova),
- form through color (Alexander Osmerkin),
- color in space (Aleksandra Ekster)
- color on the plane (Ivan Kliun),
- construction (Alexander Rodchenko),
- simultaneity of form and color (Aleksandr Drevin),
- volume in space (Nadezhda Udaltsova),
- history of the Western arts (Amshey Nurenberg) and
- tutelage by Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine.
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