Based on M. A. Vrubel’s art materials, the article describes the function of painters as founders of a new school of decorative and applied arts in Russia in the end of the 19th
century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Keywords: decorative arts, applied arts, ceramics, M. A. Vrubel.
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