Michael Zlatkovsky first in the history of the Soviet Union, founded and headed the Union of Cartoonists and second of all Russian artists received the Order of the Legion of Honor in France (the first was Ivan Aivazovsky) *. In Russia, the so-winning artist has won.
- Have you tried to convince other artists that need to continue to draw on controversial subjects?
- There are people who have great pleasure to serve this government for the money. After the war with Georgia, the dismantling of the Bronze Soldier in Estonia, some of my colleagues drew on given topics, such as Valentin Druzhinin of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and Andrei Bilzho of "Izvestia". In response to questions from colleagues, one said that reflected "his position", the second - which is not thought, though his figure (elephant and lap-dogs) use it on Estonia and Georgia. Fortunately, these two artists. The great merit of the last thirty years: almost no one of my colleagues do not want to cooperate with the authorities. Our generation has always been underground, but not in the "Crocodile", which consisted of people bought with the title of folk artists, heroes of labor, shops and recreation on an academic cottage.
In Russian culture there is a huge systemic problem: a country of words, verbal, not visual. Only in times of Peter appeared portraits. Engravings by Durer and Rembrandt, were known only to the Hermitage, the writers of the XIX century wrote to one percent of the population, while other people were dirty, very crude culture: splints with pornography and obscene words ...
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Here inaccuracy:
Besides Ivan Aivazovsky, Knight of the Legion of Honor in the RI was Baron and in Russia after he was awarded Zlatkovsky and Zurab Tsereteli.
Yes, and S. Roerich to help the orphanage children, and blind to the 1st World War I was presented with the Legion of Honor, but by this award, he declined in favor of his father, because believed that he was more worthy.
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- An artist can respond to current events and stay out of cartoons?
- Yes. For example, I'm doing the second year in a long series of philosophical graphics "Metropolitan". Dispelling the myth that the Moscow metro is the most beautiful in the world, showing how the blood it costs. I also have a picture of the past: a prisoner in rags artist paints on the wall of the chamber a great Firebird. It is separated from the wall and tries to fly but can not: the window size and the lattice do not allow. In this picture there is no Putin and Medvedev, but there is a general hopelessness. This is a political painting, but not topical satire. Yet it was her dream to do: every day, and preferably in several newspapers at once. But we need a mass of information that this series would be published. Theme of the Chechen war has been and remains prohibited, as the theme of Beslan. Even Putin's pictures with the phrases do not publish. But Putin - a source of inspiration for the artist, however, not Russian, and Western. His phrase, "she drowned," "call the Doctor" and "soak in the toilet," earned them millions of dollars and euros. I am often at international exhibitions and symposiums. They genuinely do not understand why we do not draw our "witty guy." Tell them you can not.
