WAYS OF ART (AND TRUTH) We are on the threshold of change...

G Nesterov, "Summer in blue", oil, cardboard, 1996

WAYS OF ART (AND TRUTH)
(We are on the threshold of change in the cultural paradigm of society)

I wanted to call that article as "The Tao of art", but the “Tao" implies the only one way ...
But in reality we know there are many roads, if we have only willed to look at the map...
Which way will going the community? Is normal this question?
We know that people need for a full life by all ways, as of the large and even the small paths…
But by the "judges" from the art are generally chosen only the "high" or "right" one.
Probably, they are somewhat right – are the difficult roads, roads leading into a precipice, or which are not planned...
But in order to find that "right" way, someone must to explore the rest of it... Many believe that the majority follow by the unerring strategy... Often they are right ... but not always. There are times when they resemble a flock following by the ram which is going for the slaughterhouse...
We know from history that society from time to time has changing one’s own direction. These changes sometimes are not striking, but are times for the radical turning of a movement... and it’s turning points are obligatory and have the force of law...
And it is now, that the world community commits another cardinal turn.
Behind left the revolutionary one 20th century, with its centrifugal tendencies and tries to withstand for it by violent totalitarian regimes...
The main idol of man by this time was the desire for total "liberation" from all it what seemed as a "binding" ...Away from the state and morality, from the family and "old-fashioned" notions of love ... Away from the "laws" of any kind and "objectivity" ...from the "outdated" metaphysics and integrity of the world ...away from the concept "harmony", "truth", "justice", and together away from all previous Culture...
In the world which was disassembled for an "atomic facts", a man who lost all ties is lonely ...with loss "connection" he lost himself, lost his "humanity" and the right called as a "human being"...
Together with the loss “the whole" a man lost his “great soul"...
Society has become a lifeless organism, where instead of people formed a mechanical aggregate of "screws" and "bolt".
The art especially painting, which get "loss of a man" and with it the interest for everything "human". The Art has become a flat, two-dimensional, decorative set of spots...
And if in the late 19th and early 20th century the rejection from man and humanity was a rejection from "the man and humanity" of the past culture, for the name of an imaginary "bright future "and for “the new, transformed man”. This "rejection" began enthusiasts, revolutionaries, solitary men... Gradually they were joined by the rest society ... little by little forgetting the first purpose…
And when one of the artists, in spite of the prevailing fashion, after all, "returned to man " which "have forgotten", it already was a man "doomed and devoid of purpose".
Joy, optimism, faith in the future and beauty have become synonymous of "kitsch", "bad taste" and "mauvais” tone, become worthy of "deep contempt..."
But that future for which went to sacrifice oneself the "revolutionaries" of the past ... come.
We must to live, it is desirable to live well... and this can only be done on the way rejected ideals. …Returning to the dropped harmony between man and the world, man and society... back for lost love, beauty, truth, justice... Faith in the future and the positive values that return us to optimism!

Gregory Nesterov 10.30.2015

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