Portrait of an average molhuda

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"Molhud" - a young artist
Journal Artchronika "was a portrait of an average young Russian artist. The material formed the questionnaire distributed to participants of Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art "Stop! Who goes there?" and students and graduates of art schools. Reply to the questionnaire agreed to 60 people.
The average age of a young artist - 22-25 years old (the oldest respondents in 1933); girls among them a little more than boys. Most of the molhudov (the authors call them "Artchronika) from Moscow and St. Petersburg, followed by Perm and Yekaterinburg. 60 percent are studios, the rest do not need them. Only 15 percent of those surveyed want to move to other cities and countries. Completed art education have less than a quarter of respondents, and half considered it unnecessary. Beginner artist is not able to live on the proceeds from the sale of works actively disseminates information about their work on the Internet, has formed his political views.
"Answers to the questions' Is there any taboo subjects in the arts?" and 'What is now the most important thing in art? " distributed as a paradoxical way. the third artist believes that the hard sex and pornography, death, violence (and animal), and nationalism are banned, as many respondents said that these topics The fundamental for the arts in our time "
In Top favorite authors were no historical predecessors of young artists of the XXI century - artists of the nineties, the avant-garde 80th, Conceptual, non-conformists and representatives of the Russian avant-garde. For once mentioned Mikhail Roginskii and Ilya Kabakov. Of the members of the "young shop - once Eugene Antufiev and Andrew Kuzkin. In Top predilections undisputed leader for some reason the French: Matisse, Monet, Degas, for them to load the Van Gogh, Dali and Bosch. Of the artists of the twentieth century ahead of Duchamp, Warhol and DA Prigov.
In addition to the above question molhudov were asked to rate the importance of culture and size of the impact on them personally five artists of different eras: Rembrandt, Cezanne, Malevich, Warhol and Kulik (and then asked to write any names on request, but few took advantage of this). After the responses were discarded, where everybody put five or zero, it turns out that Oleg Kulik, the average young artist finds useless for culture in general, and for his creative development. Average rating 1 of 5. 10%of respondents work Kulik did not know the . Defeated in this poll Rembrandt with an average rating of 4.5. Warhol was a little ahead of Malevich. Unfamiliar with the works of these artists, except Kulik was not found.
A typical young artist - a girl or boy, rather a girl, age 22-23. Without art education, nemoskvichka. The arts at home, not actively tusuetsya. Understand little about politics, but endowed with a sense of social protest. Art Wednesday on the sidelines which is molhud, he sees unfriendly and overloaded hard market relations. Prone to materialism. Death and violence and sex with animals for her taboo topic. Admires the Impressionists and the likes of Oleg Kulik. Builds the artist mostly installations and objects of the inexpensive materials and participates in collective exhibitions. In principle, ready to make a career of the artist, but varies.
 "This type is not similar to the one being promoted in the media, and has received awards in major galleries personalki. Apparently, when you become a real artist, the definition of 'young' loses its value," - concludes that "Artchronika.
(Lenta.Ru)
(ArtChronika, Arseny Steiner, http://www.artchronika.ru/item.asp?id=2047)