Abstract. The article examines the period of training of young Russian artists in the Moscow
“Studio of Konstantin Yuon” in 1900–1917, who later became bright representatives of
avant-garde trends in painting from the point of view of the mutual infl uence of the teacher’s
creative manner and the artistic pursuits of novice painters who gravitated to the study of
current trends in the European artistic process. The purpose of the study is to determine the
nature of the relationship between the artistic principles of the Russian realist school and
the creative attitudes of the representatives of future avant-garde trends in painting during
their training in the studio of K. Yuon in the early 20th century. The results of the work show
that despite the fact that K. Yuon was a representative of the Russian realist tradition, in his
work of that period, as well as in the works of the students of his studio, there is not so much
opposition between the aesthetic and artistic methods of Russian realism and the emerging
avant-garde movements, but rather a dialog and mutual enrichment of plastic methods,
which had a signifi cant infl uence on the formation of the creative manner of the artists.
Keywords: Yuon, Russian realism, Russian avant-garde, Yuon’s studio, Russian painting
