That's what Serge wrote to me in one of his last letters:
"I not only Gerasimov and Brodsky is not close (although Brodsky in St. Petersburg museum-apartment could see Chagall and Larionov)
I did the whole system of playing the same artists who write "grass and twigs," I consider evil and inhibiting cultural development of Russia. So-called "realism" - a product thoughtlessness and speculation in recent years added more and commerce, and hope that she did all these "mud" and consigned to the dustbin "
in response to mine:
"This is how I saw the meaning of their participation in the forum, get them to think that Russia should - and can - be integrated into the international art community, but for this it is necessary that it has ceased to engage in some kind of masturbation, tired or reproduced without the dubious achievement Russian painting of 19. or creating homegrown mystics.
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