About Art, Creativity and Vitebsk State University Art Faculty
The article is based on memoirs of the author, Grigory Fedorovich Shauro, who is a former Vitebsk State University Art Faculty graduate (1971), Doctor of Science (Art Studies), Professor, State Prize “For Moral Revival” laureate. He warmly characterizes his student years , speaks quiveringly about his studies, teachers (V.K. Dezhits, D.P. Generalnitski, G.F. Klikushin, A.F. Kovalev, L.M. Tsybulski, E.T. Zhukova, E.A. Vasilenko, V.K. Zeilert, O.G. Orlov, A.V. Nekrasov, L.S. Antimonov, V.I. Ralysevich, E.K. Krasovski, O.I. Semenov, I.P. Khitko and others) who imparted their students with knowledge and creative skills in fine arts, shaped professional, civil and patriotic qualities. Students were proud to be pupils of such outstanding specialists and, due to this, they were interested academically and developed creatively.Several decades after the graduation the outstanding Belarusian scholar gratefully and warmly restores the pages of those unforgettable times of university studies where graduates had an opportunity to become high level professionals and to manifest themselves in creative, pedagogical, public and scientific activities.