Playing cards - a symbol of peace partite ...
 

"Playing cards - a symbol of partite world in his removal from the human personality procedure, spontaneity and capricious volatile states. Declaring the map as an aesthetic phenomenon, I have tried to distance itself from its usual home of symbolism, though aware that it is impossible to ignore completely. In everyday life, real world map is both a thing and the game, and a unique communications tool that links together the various socio-cultural types ... " V. Nemukhin.

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"Jack", 1991. Mixed media on paper, 78,7 x 58,4. USA Gallery Mimi Ferts.
  Just a good picture.

I do not know ... How would I not respected Vladimir Nikolayevich, but with such a philosophy, it can not agree. Type "Fate plays a man ..." This is partly so, of course, but it's not the point. Playing cards, in my opinion, but rather a symbol of human passions that capture and manage their rights - in this case is really beginning to fully dispose of the destiny of man, but rather not even fate, and vice. And the man who can not resist his passions, is heading for the abyss and die in it. That such a philosophy.

One may speculate on this subject, but the sense I have briefly outlined.

Once again, it's my purely personal opinion - so to say, IMHO (the true opinion of horseradish challenge!:))

Admin, ".... Subject or reception, the plot should be characteristic of the artist's work, recognizable, rod in his work. These topics may be somewhat, but all - their own, right. Example: a recognized theme in the works of Vladimir Nemukhin are playing cards. In the collages, graphics and paintings from the late 1960's figure suit, solitaire, aces and jacks are not always diamonds. This is the same theme, recognizable reception, the business card of the artist has for forty years . But open the album "Nonconformists" the famous collection of spouses Bar-Gera and find a U-turn Nemukhin. And then, next to the familiar "maps" we see some soft of color abstraction in 1964. Like and Nemukhin, and the year is not bad, but the artistic value and investment potential in this abstraction, practically no. Same "map" of today may be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the abstraction is only an artistic experiment - as it is now clear, bad ......."
An article in the journal on this topic http://www.directorinfo.ru/Article.a...61&iid=808
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Volodya rights, well, not 100%, but the truth is somewhere nearby.
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".. I have tried to distance itself from its usual home symbolism .." V. Nemukhin

Agree. But I did not write about it, but the philosophical beginning. By the way, Nemukhin personal communication stresses that his work is no philosophy, no. The whole philosophy - fiction critics. Perhaps VN somewhat disingenuous, but his tone in the utterance of these words - is unlikely.

I agree with Nemukhin ..