# Svomas

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**Svomas** or **SVOMAS** (Russian: Свомас or СВОМАС), an abbreviation for ***Svo**bodnye gosudarstvennye khudozhestvennye **mas**terskiye* (Russian: Свободные Государственные художественные мастерские) (Free State Art Studios), was the name of a series of art schools founded in several Russian cities after the [October Revolution](/source/October_Revolution).

The Moscow Svomas was founded in 1918, replacing the [Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry](/source/Stroganov_Moscow_State_Academy_of_Arts_and_Industry) (which became the First Free Art Studio), and the [Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture](/source/Moscow_School_of_Painting,_Sculpture,_and_Architecture) (which became the Second Free Art Studio). In 1920, the school was replaced by [Vkhutemas](/source/Vkhutemas) design school. The Petrograd Svomas was created in 1919 by renaming the Petrograd Free Art Educational Studios (Pegoskhuma), which had been formed a year earlier when the [Academy of Arts](/source/Imperial_Academy_of_Arts) was abolished; in 1921 it was replaced by the Petrograd State Art-Educational Studios of the Reconstructed Academy of Arts.

The aim of Svomas was to spread awareness of and competence in the arts to the previously underprivileged workers and peasants.[1] Entrance examinations were abolished, art history courses were optional, the faculty was replaced by avant-garde artists, and students were free to choose their professors.[2]

## References

1. Katerina Clark, *Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution* (Harvard University Press, 1995: ISBN 0-674-66336-5), p. 50.

1. Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth C. Lindsay, and Peter Vergo, *Kandinsky: Complete Writings On Art* (Da Capo Press, 1994: ISBN 0-306-80570-7), p. 489.

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