The St. Augustine Art Association will host a free art lecture on Tuesday, September 25, at 7 p.m., featuring Rev. Vladimir Kaydanov, Associate Professor of Art History with the Florence Classical Arts Academy in Italy. His richly illustrated presentation, “The Academic Method: From the Renaissance through Modernity,” explores the systematic evolution of Classical drawing and painting that employed balance, perspective, symbolism, and other techniques to visually communicate religious, mythological and metaphorical stories and ideas.
The talk will be supplemented with a “pop-up” traveling exhibit of contemporary academic drawings from the Florence Classical Arts Academy. Kaydanov received his art education at The Chicago Academy for the Arts and The Cleveland Institute of Art. He earned a Theology degree in Moscow with a specialty in Church Art History. An ordained Russian Orthodox Priest, Kaydanov also serves as Director of International Relations for the Florence Academy of Classical Art.
The St. Augustine Art Association is located at 22 Marine Street, one block west of the City Marina. Reservations for the lecture are requested. Call the Art Association at (904) 824-2310 for seating, or go to www.staaa.org for more information.
To learn more about the Florence Academy of Classical Arts, visit the school online at www.artac.org.
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