It may therefore be at an internationally recognized artist, famous for portraits of Indira Gandhi, Federico Fellini, David Siqueiros, the home still enemies no less than friends. The Russian genius "and" reactionary academic "- here, perhaps, the two extremes in the assessment of creativity Ilya Glazunov. However, it was not unsettling.
"I worked and worked to the benefit of Russia. Without Russia, I myself can not imagine. For me it is better on the bunk in Siberia than in a villa in Miami," - says Ilya Glazunov.
"I offered to stay in the West and in America dozens of times, but what about the debt owed to the Fatherland?" Only once I felt bad when my film "Mystery of the twentieth century would forcibly expel the Soviet Union. Good luck, because someone from the Communist bosses said: "Enough to dissidents." Otherwise I would have been expelled, as a writer Solzhenitsyn. My continued belief: Russian - is the one who loves Russia. For example, the Jew Isaac Levitan - a great Russian artist, who loved Russia " - gives an example of the pictures.
Many of the paintings presented at the jubilee exhibition, as telling Ilya Glazunov, "appeared under the influence of long-term travel to the Russian province. It was there that felt most acutely, for example, the tragedies experienced in the 20 th century Russian peasants, when he was deprived of the right to private ownership of land, forcibly rounded up the communes, collective farms. This dramatic page of Russian history is devoted to home, in the opinion of the artist, painting exhibition - "cannibalization. The huge canvas size of 4x8 meters, more than a hundred pieces ...
"I thought of this picture of the destruction of the Russian peasantry, when he heard the words a very peculiar man Winston Churchill:" I thought I would die of old age, but now I understand that I'll die of laughter, because I learned that Russia is buying bread. " This is the result of Stalin's reforms, the result of the Bolshevik conquest of Russia, - said the pictures. - I have long wanted to express the tragedy of the peasants, the destruction of those who fed the bread half of the world in ancient times.
Of course, new paintings by Ilya Glazunov is written in a realistic manner, he has relentlessly professed. He was sometimes even called "militant realist. But this is, incidentally, is not deterred from the master of young artists who come to his Academy of Painting and Sculpture, where they are taught exclusively in the tradition of realism.
"Once I went to the Tretyakov Gallery - recalls Ilya Glazunov, - and there are buckets, a shovel stuck, broken glass, and something else. I sincerely apologize: you then repair? "What are you - tell me - is an exhibition of contemporary art. This installation ". I'm for all forms of art! But totally agree with the idea of the great Russian artist Vrubel: "only gives rise to a depth of realism and versatility."
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