Ray Bradbury, wrote: "Most books with pictures. More movies. A food for thought less and less. Not better or worse, is the case, and in fine arts. It is no secret that television and the press for modern painting and sculpture is meant only more perverse, more and more disgusting variation of avant-garde. As if we did not have and there is Konstantin Vasilyev, Ilya Glazunov, Alexander Shilov and others. Sculpture, in general, is replaced by a monstrous invention of the charlatans of art - installation. At the same Moscow Biennale exhibited a formless heap of rubbish the French creator of Boris Ashura called "Operation Restoring Poetry. What? Peripherals are not far behind. In Krasnoyarsk, a local "artist" Tishkov hung sheets on the ropes between the trees. This exhibit was displayed in the local Biennale. However, homeless people, apparently out of love for art, stolen artifacts, together with ropes and pegs. Perverted people! And we pretend that we nravitsya.Chto we are savages, to be bought on the cheap beads? Undoubtedly, this is largely due to the direct transfer of the foreign culture on our soil, being introduced this culture without any critical thinking, regardless of our traditions, rudely and aggressively. If so accepted "throughout the civilized" world, and what are we - the worse? Thank you, gentlemen, that opened our eyes to our homespun nature. It turns out that there was not at last set with nothing standing, let alone the Soviet period - is quite the failure of culture. However, objected to me, the whole history of nations - is cross-fertilization and interpenetration of cultures, their synthesis. One can not we live in isolation from the rest of the world. I agree, really, people, culture, withdrawn into themselves facing the inevitable degeneration. Tom gave a history of quite a few examples. Self-isolation, no sane person can not support. But then, on the other hand, neither of which mutual enrichment in our country and almost no speech. There is a clear dominance of western culture and disregard for his own. At the dump trying to throw something, I would say great, that accumulated in the art of our distinguished predecessors. Imitation and affectation becomes the norm. In the "elite" was adopted rule - the classical art and folk traditions - the last century. Even the festivals of "country", ie folk song meant only modernized songs rehash of English-speaking countries. The notorious figure Shvydkoi exhibited at the Biennale abroad on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Tretyakov Gallery naked Gay! See, gentlemen, we also do not bast soup slurp! And how many of you have seen reports on television about our exhibitions are still numerous, talented, but working in the traditional manner of artists? In other words, the country is gaining momentum process, which is suspiciously reminiscent of a violent destruction of the conquistadors cultural values of Native Americans. For expediency of modern mass media, corruption of their leadership and the acquiescence of those in power, we can, over time, be in the position of Indian manufacturing industry souvenirs and performing dances "antique" the joy and fun of the same descendants of the conquistadors. I repeat, I am not in any way for the "Iron Curtain". We have already tried this. But whether you want to mindlessly copy what is proving to be just a fraud and a sign of degeneracy. That degeneration, because, in my opinion, only art, and especially painting, are the harbinger of social cataclysms, litmus paper, Detection of - at passionarnym rise or decline, is society.
This is most clearly be seen in the fine arts. What we now proposed in the form of the masterpieces of world art? It's Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, Chagall and Kandinsky, and, finally, Andy Warhol and Malevich, as the apotheosis of the profanation of art. I do not want to mention the many smaller "creators". parasites in the field of artistic creativity. Do not reveal the truth if I say that all "-isms" of art raised to shield greedy owners of the galleries and auctions in conjunction with corrupt critics. Their "new views" on the painting were picked up and replicated to the greedy for profit and sensationalism of newspapers and magazines, and in the future and other media. Why this was not possible during Davinchi and Renoir? There are many reasons, but chief among them - is that the media have not yet achieved that power over the minds of people, which they reached in the twentieth century. As a result, virtually the entire intellectual elite of Western countries began to be afraid to speak his true opinion about the avant-garde. Well, let them there himself portrayed violent admiration debris on the pedestal and "installations" of all the laughing at them Warhol. It is now in Europe and America, almost every adult, afraid of being branded as "reactionary neprodvinutym" in a hurry to pay their respects to the empty beer cans and messy stain on the sheet. Moreover, this fear is to recognize "the nakedness of the king" violently forced upon the world. Is this not one of the reasons an increasingly strong anti-globalization movement? So we have "helluva lot of advanced" decided that it's no good us abreast of "best in Europe", and we need to have a black square and other rat on a tray. And all this gang started strongly impress credulous people that abomination beautiful. So many of us dutifully pretend to admire the antics of rogues, praise them, afraid to admit that the emperor has no clothes. Criticize "modern art" was simply mauvais ton. And is not that what lies one of the many reasons to strengthen Islamic hostility to the Western world. Apparently these "evil fundamentalists" simply not afraid to admit the obvious, personally seeing clear signs of degradation, of duplicity, lies and blatant disregard for people's opinion and his own church.
I have argued and will argue that the degradation of art precedes the degradation of society and vice versa - the flowering of art ahead of the socio-economic progress. Why, then, you say, decadence and other "-isms" have arisen precisely in the early 20 century? After all, when capitalism was still "on the rise? And because the signs of degeneration of fine art arose just as the heralds of the coming collapse of Western civilization, the first, but fairly obvious, evidence of which we are beginning to see just now. Russian avant-garde, too, began its zenith, when the society, aptly, was only "pregnant with revolution". And such examples are legion numbers. Open the history of ancient Rome. When you read books on the history of fine arts in Rome, it is not difficult to see what else, it would seem, during his heyday there are signs of some degradation of paintings. Of course, modern art historians do not write about it directly. They write that in the painting appeared first tendencies or elements of impressionism. And what are they but the degradation? Or take another example. No deaths preceded by Byzantine iconoclasm - struggle with, almost the only art school at that time. Experienced, impartial art will find that even a lot of examples. On the other hand, the flourishing of art, as we have already noted, preceded by the progress of the public. Vivid confirmation of this - that in the era of the dark Middle Ages, when capitalism was still only just being born, going through, so to speak, "prenatal period, the stage came the Renaissance. How accurately described this period, the historian L. Gumilev: "A brilliant revival against the backdrop of universal degeneration." Renaissance, which was a forerunner of the coming era heyday of bourgeois relations. Repeat - this could be reinforced and the other examples, but I did not set out to write a scholarly work. I just wanted to say that the long pent up.
Fortunately, according to SM Solovieva: ".. there is nothing in the history does not end suddenly, and nothing starts suddenly, and the new begins at a time when the old continued." What is still encouraging - is that the majority of our people still do not bite on this bait rotten West, the expansion only affects part of the intelligentsia and the "elite". Here should have their say, our culture and leading figures of this intellectual elite. Naturally, no real political leadership here will not do. Therefore, the campaign for real aesthetics must begin not only from the bottom, with the younger generation, but the top - with the political elite. If we took all the very best of world development, global culture, not blindly copying the West will find its own path of development, only then we can have a future. Otherwise, clinging to the wreckage of Western civilization, are doomed to perish with it. Meanwhile, the magazines - both wrote the same Bradbury - turned into a kind of vanilla syrup, and books - in sweetened swill. And the longer it takes, the less hope remains on a favorable outcome.