First of all I want to say that I do not want to offend anyone.
No accounting for tastes, as you know.
But I honestly do not understand how you can make investments in the Armenian artists, many of whom I love and respect, in the Russian speaking countries?
I hear accusations of nationalism, chauvinism, etc., but from time immemorial known that the national art more clearly geographically as portraits of interest only to family members or really interesting portraits only superizvestnyh personalities.
I write this not to quarrel with lovers of Armenian artists, but this is subject to the readability of the second after the "promotion of artists." But let us now begin to enumerate all the graduates, and not only of Russian universities, accompanied by one or two pictures, this is what tells us the way of investment?
I started the conversation because I believe that to impose their art other peoples can not, even though it is internationally, but also should not overdo.
During Soviet times, when trying to artificially preserve the empire, any national art implanted throughout the republics, in other words, museums were filled with "salad" of artists of different nationalities. It was just like in the army: a soldier from Russia served in Tajikistan "that the world looked, and vice versa, a Tajik served here at the remote missile forces.
What came of it known to all.
Of the ninety-five museums where the works of my father, I'm sure in ten just the interest for the viewer it does not represent, because they do not understand this art, as well as an Australian can not imagine a temperature of -35 degrees Celsius.
And these works are not on display, and in the store.
P.S. This text was inspired by one of the topics.
Please state your point of view. Thank you.