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Matthew Bown: Realism, of course, alive. "Of the one hundred most expensive artists in the world in the last twenty-five years - the Chinese, who were studying in institutions in China, attended the high realist technique, and pictures in mostly realistic, and they are among the most coveted in the world. Realism is alive in America. The artist Jeff Wall, which is currently exhibiting at the Biennale, genre painter in the purest form. Andreas Gursky, a very expensive photographer from Germany, also a realist. In England, the most expensive painter Lucien Freud , a realist. That is, realism thrives everywhere. .. "
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First Lady Tar: I have always aroused the suspicion of great artists who are now, today they say: I - a realist. Or is that something really terrible, I'm afraid to watch the work, when I the artist previously warned that he was a realist, or, conversely, you can open any absolute abstraction. Malevich, in my opinion, is also something which claimed that he was a realist. Very different things can go invest in that word. But when I make this project, I did not invite any of realists. There I have a photographer, Conceptual quite a lot. I was amazed that all of them with great interest the Russian realism, they all began to speak ... I was quite shocked that that Ilya Kabakov with I spend hours talking on the phone from America, as he was not interested in Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and other artists, and how it terribly interesting Perov, Fedotov and Alexander Ivanov.
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I think it's just returning to your question, because the realism is dead, and it is so no one needs ... That is something we are accustomed to thinking that we all want to go to the Tretyakov Gallery and look realistic paintings and contemporary art nobody likes. We all grew up with this feeling that we are engaged in a sort of elitist affair, but the bulk of people go to look at the painting "Alyonushka." Perhaps some weight back and go, but on the whole cultural situation has changed a lot now, I would say the contrary, they all want contemporary art, they all want to blinking, jumping and light and was in some contemporary forms. But this realism that was then, and even with the image of what some villagers or something like that, or some revolutionary liberation movement, it is so nobody wants that, probably, the artists were delighted that they can do something that already has the status of some African masks, as it was for Picasso ... "
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Source. Russian realism.
http://www.svobodanews.ru/articlete....70318120057160
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