The urban landscape of St. Petersburg by artists of the academic school of the 2000s and 2020s.

The article reveals the theme of the "urban landscape", formulates the main features, using the example of the works of artists. There are not many images in modern academic painting that harmoniously combine genre subjects and urban views. Among the graduates of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, there are artists who are fascinated by the "living" aspects of the urban environment: A. Gorlanov, K. Malkov, as well as P. Tyutrin, A. Makarov, I. Tupeyko find inspiration in everything they see around them (in passers-by on the streets, in festive events in squares and boulevards). The subtlety of the artists' perception is focused on interesting details and plot. In the works of these landscape painters, the everyday life of the Northern Capital is perceived as an endlessly changing motif. The subject of the study is the urban landscape of St. Petersburg. Research methods such as cultural and historical analysis and formal stylistic analysis are used to study this topic. The study is due to the low degree of study of the modern St. Petersburg urban landscape in the scientific and theoretical field of art criticism. The urban landscape expertly balances between two principles of depicting reality: natural, realistic, and conventional, decorative. In modern academic painting in the genre of urban landscape, various human interactions with the urban environment are shown: images can convey an organic existence in the dynamics of the strict geometry of the city, loneliness and isolation, and the contrast between history and modernity. In the practice of modern academic art, new approaches to landscape largely synthesize genre forms familiar to the viewer. Landscape images can be present in portraits, still lifes, and everyday scenes where nature or an urban backdrop serve to create a certain mood, symbolism, or compositional solution. The urban landscape occupies a significant place in modern academic painting, as it allows artists to convey the dynamics of urban life and its internal contradictions.