«the artist is only important to the story of painting: it he expresses his creative will». I think there were many artists, mostly old masters, for which the "subject of the picture" was not less important than the "beautiful story" (hence their art does not become less strong!). For example (the first thing that came to mind), it would be strange to think that the stories in the series of etchings "Los Caprichos" had special meaning for Goya ...
«The plot is applied only to those who are not able to perceive the emotional painting." This is not true. It is possible to understand the art and at the same time be inspired by the story of the picture. One more, at least not interfere. "Noon" Petrov-Vodkin is such a case: a picture of shocking us with his painting, ie "Beautiful story", but I personally can not be separated from him "story pictures" - pictured in her life (and death) is just one organic whole. I have absolutely no idea how to "story pictures" may be the case, according to Signac, "spoofed" without painting has lost its force. The same applies to most of the great "story" pictures - the story and painting them inseparable as yin and yang.
«The artist should not touch the viewer's plot, and the harmony of line and color, which he has the right to order him». This is again a very one-sided judgment. Is it, for example, "The refusal of confession" Repin touched us especially the harmony of lines and colors? We admire the color, elegance of composition? .. It is unlikely, almost monochrome painting, the composition is good because it makes it easier to convey the action. Affects us very "scene": a turn of the head, eyes, face convict, then, as he pulled away from the baggy ass figures. We see the rejection of the confession, we see the drama, the tension of the moment, and that's on us and influences.
Of course in the story of painting created a huge number of weak and frankly mediocre paintings. They can always be brought up as an example - say, admire, that he is your "genre" ... But it is necessary to judge the best designs. It would be foolish to bet on one level snug-Postcard scenes in the spirit of Charles Barber and painting ter Borch, the semi-official "cloth" social. realists and works Surikov. That also is good story and generally realism, that it mediocrity and immediately discernible talent. But in the plotless (pointless) painting with this situation somehow, to put it mildly, strange ... So much so, that in the paintings of Pierre Brasseur in 1964, critics have seen
almost masterpieces, when in fact it was the work of a chimpanzee named Peter. (It is fair to say that one critic did guessed that "only a monkey could do it", I wonder who that was.) In 2005, the story virtually repeated itself: the director of the State Museum of Art (!) In Moritzburg Katja Schneider took creativity chimp named Bangui for a painting by Ernst Wilhelm Neya. I think Signac would be pleased. "The interest in the story has dried up," and today is not only the workers are able to "experience the excitement and joy of painting as such," but even the great apes. Hurrah! .. (However, in the case of the workers are still in doubt, it's the monkeys in the zoo have nothing to do with them and scientists are busy, and the workers 'hard work' and 'lack of education' cause they are still "prefer a plot.")
Last ... One can argue that there are important at the Mona Lisa (on "Mona Lisa") - a smile, a nose or a "harmony of lines and colors" and how we should "sandwich right there." There is no doubt but what do we see a woman and she still smiles. The main thing to "plot" or "harmony" in the paintings of Velázquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet - can be any debate (in my opinion, again, is the "yin and yang"). There is no doubt but that the stories they have. In this case, there is little doubt that plotless painting of an equivalent nothing has yet been created. (Even in the brilliant "Red fish" by Henri Matisse, we can easily find out exactly fish, some exaggerated, but in spite of Signac, very "similar to what nature has to offer him." (And in other "red fish" still naked aunt see similar to the naked aunt)). Perhaps, since "liberation" was far too little time, and after 300 years the world will be revealed at last plotless canvas, filled with never seen before, "the harmony of shapes and colors," of which our happy descendants might well say: oh yeah, this thing stronger than the "Night Watch" by Rembrandt! .. Perhaps this bright day ever comes. "But to live in this time of great ..." In general, as long as we have what painting monkeys with difficulty distinguished from painting people.