"Предакадемичният" период на българското изкуство. Художествени процеси, обусловили създаването на Държавното рисувално училище
The Pre-academic Period of Bulgarian Art. Artistic trends resulting in the creation the State Art School

Summary/Abstract: The article review the stages of in Bulgarian fine arts from the late Revival Period to the early years after the Liberation. Substantial changes have occurred over the last 6 or 7 decades of the 19th century both as far as genre innovation, and the rise of secular art, on the one hand, on the other the gradual development of the academic style, created by Bulgarian painters who had graduated from prestigious Fine Art academies - Munchen, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Paris, Florence, Torino, Brussels, and elsewhere. Special attention is shown to two of the leading authors, who carried out revolutionary changes in the artistic thought of their times - Zahary Zograph and Nikolai Pavlovitch. Separate facts, which point to the difficulties before the public, not ready for the new challenges of the realistic building up of form and easel-drawing from a subject are given. In conclusion the need for a change on the way towards Europe, European civilization, a road Bulgaria had taken on prior to the liberation (1878) is also logically borne out and should also take place with the arts for a serious professional training of future painters and sculptors. Such were the tasks to be resolved by the new institution, opened in 1896 - the State Drawing School.

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