No doubt: they too want to live, but art, real art of it, neither heat nor cold.
Reading the biographies of those old masters, whose works now thanks to their cost it makes sense to forge, we see that usually in the lives of these artists in their paintings there was no such demand and that they were not even dreamed of those sums that pay for these pictures now. Mikolas Ales (1) received for his classical paintings on guilder either paid them their accounts in the tavern. If, then, found a collector who gave Alesha least one-fifth of that paid for his pictures now, the late Ales could live differently and create more freely and not carry out orders, often absurd.

The fact that most so-called collectors do not understand the essence of art and not have him a serious, sensitive approach, and they do not dare to judge the artistic value of works by a living author and are afraid to make a bad buy. When life Navratil (2) no one admired his paintings on the weight of gold, because they did not see anything outstanding. Now Navratil quoted as stocks SMíCHOV brewery, and bought about the same purpose: to put in capital, yes, maybe even get rich, and in case of increase in price. Buying Navratil, you risk nothing - except perhaps to stumble upon a fake, and choose among modern paintings - here, my friends, requires a bit of artistic flair and the ability to guess talent has not yet been officially established the museum's assessment. Maybe that's the young master, who is currently a penny to, fifty years after his death becomes a famous old master paintings for bogus collectors who will pay tens of thousands of crowns, and so far - his paintings are several hundred and it already gives him the opportunity to live and write.

But, of course, much more striking point on the wall: they say, here I Pipengagen (3), and here the early drawing Chermak (4) - than to say: this is one artist still alive and give my head to be chopped off - the picture is good.

We still have not found any Tretyakov, nor Shchukin (5), nor Nemesa (6), nor Camondo (7), nor as yet there is such great collectors are called - who, with his taste and ability to orient the development of contemporary visual arts, gathered together to outstanding artistic value, and at the same time would incur in relation to the value of creating these artists feature a patron - or is it something even more necessary: the function of sympathetic cultural environment, relieving the artist of the need to create an atmosphere of indifference and incomprehension. For the development of art created by artists still alive, there must be people who are interested in them, rather than collectors and chased the values created by hand long dead, for certification and expertise, rather than approach the film with the measure, which can not be replaced by any expert, - with a direct assessment of its artistic merits.