[Seriy]

NATA NOVA, I'll describe here now as I am a graduate of Moscow State University, Ph.D., a former high school teacher, I understand that such an individual style and secondary primacy in painting. Cited about science, because my explanation would be slightly formalized and mechanistic, not in terms of art.
 Painting is something that is discussed and evaluated, not career, not an artist, not the environment, not even an array of his work ... just a picture. A picture - this is an equation with many variables.
Some of them are described in detail the theory of composition and color theory. For example, a detailed analysis of prof.Kandinsky what happens if you move the angle to the edge of the blade, and the point - in the center, and no matter what you do represents the corner, and that is the point.
Some of these variables has not been studied in such detail, some of the variables introduced by new generations of artists.
 The equation for a given variable, one has the right solution and an infinite number of wrong. The correct solution is in the painting style. New styles of painting are rare and often a collective work, but the result can be explained only one picture, because, as mentioned above, a correct decision. A single picture to explain what Cubism, one in order to explain what impressionism, surrealism, one, etc. If you can not define the style of the artist in which he works, it probably is - slurred, t e is an infinite number of wrong decisions.
 There is no primacy of painting, the picture is always secondary, because it can either be done entirely in one style, or composed of several styles. Yes, there are revolutionaries, like the founders of Cubism - Picasso and Braque, but in real life to anyone with this deal is not necessary.
When we think we see something new, it is likely that we are poorly educated in the history of painting. I enjoyed a very original Picasso Romanesque period, until I saw a painting by Cezanne, Picasso, which is used to create it. And this work of Picasso with a wide field of pure ultramarine and shades the ground around a thread can be stretched to other artists, such as N. Nesterova with the same field of pure ultramarine and shades of the earth - white, black, ocher around.
So what's involved in an artist? Two things-first, he must learn to clearly, accurately, clearly, to speak - for this to understand how the pattern is arranged and to be able to use this understanding. Second, he must understand how styles can reflect his personal psychophysics, that person is inherent, because if the artist will use his alien styles, he has nothing intelligent does not work, the individual must meet psychophysics viewed by styles.
When people say, "it is necessary to seek an individual style," to me it sounds like "it is necessary to seek a mirror in which I look different."

 Lempicka - an outstanding artist and full recognition is yet to come. Glamour, cover characters overshadowed her artistic nature of its achievements. But time carries with it signs of the times, topical, posters of her images, performs forward synthesis of styles that it has implemented and embodied in the 20's and 30's. She has a great nude, stunning still lifes, portraits of great - the farther, the better they will appreciate. It works very fine color, which is the coat in a portrait, a blow in the eye. So can only supermaster.