"These install them all Moscow overwhelmed!"

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At the request of the "air" Moscow realist artists talked about their difficult life , lightness of contemporary art, and the perfidy Kapkova why Levitan - is good and Malevich - bad.


Sergey Andriyaka
People's Artist of the Russian Federation , member of the Russian Academy of Arts, the founder of the School of watercolor

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« Art Moscow translated into money. Showrooms destroyed. We watercolors school that know, love . We learn both adults and children . When I contacted a friend kapok that he gave us for the Manezh exhibition in honor of the 15th anniversary of the school , I got a complete failure . You treat such a trifling matter - an exhibition , and you all are denied ! I had to write a paper Prime Minister of Russia on this issue. This is silly ! Put a barrier !

If they are white and fluffy, then let us be tolerant of each other . And it turns out that everything is completely one-sided. Nobody wants to do the show of traditional artists. Over the past years, these install them just swept everything, and especially Moscow . With great difficulty, managed to defend Tushino exhibition hall , and after a huge number of people came there families.

It's a miracle that we have no one merged , we are not canceled , and school costs , and the academy . But the academy who defended ? President! Nobody listened to nothing! She just wanted to destroy! The fight ended when pressing the head of the Presidential Administration Ivanov and his first deputy. Its all the same to cancel Sobyanin going ! There were even ideas kindergartens do it . Politics something terrible in relation to traditional culture. This education is not a man who patriot and loves his country , but simply thugs .

Everything that is happening today is because a person flipped a clue what is good and what is bad. Religion has always put everything into place. A Malevich replaces the concept . Hung "Black Square" in the corner instead of icons . If we change the spiritual emptiness and blackness , it's all for tradition does not apply. What is contemporary art ? Why is it relevant ? Nobody knows what is the meaning of this word is laid . Traditional values ​​are not relevant for some reason , and this is true ».

Peter Baranov
curator, member of the Union of Artists of Russia , member of the Association of Art , a member of the Youth Council of Arts

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« If you take the academic art and the so-called modern art , the academic average is much higher. Just all fixated on that cool and trendy go to exhibitions of contemporary art. But if you look at how this trend opens exhibitions in Moscow, it would appear that not much. They just pass on the major exchanges. Actual art - is a Western , even American history . This is about as "McDonald's" , which go today is easier than in a Russian restaurant .

At the last exhibition of Ilya Glazunov Arena in St. Petersburg was a line every day. Just ended exhibition of the students of Ilya Glazunov in Nizhny Novgorod, it was also the people , even on weekdays . What happens not with each exhibition of contemporary art .

What is good and what is bad - who decided that? The problem is that we have grounds has its own focus and it 's just not fair . For example , the Arena has concentrated its activities on poluaktualnom art. That exhibit there is drama group or a circle on fizre . The Academy of Arts was recently anniversary. The director is an arena , and the Department of Culture simply refused to hold the exhibition. So, we again appears official and unofficial art . They must display different art ! »

Nikolai Ryndin
a student of 5th course MGAHI . Surikov , Department of monumental and decorative painting

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« I am an artist in the fifth generation . My great-grandfather - artist, and grandfather and grandmother ; mother - art historian, academician, she also paints . In Soviet times, the artists did not know sorrow. Then we were forgotten . I hope that now, with the new government policy , all will return to normal and will , as in Soviet times .

Maybe I'm a dreamer , but I want to make my art to do portraits on request. What sense to learn the age of thirteen , then to go to the "McDonald's" work ? I know that somehow too much no competitors . Although we annually produced about sixty people . It seems illogical that amount . When I was a teacher Ivan Leonidovich on three courses in the department of monumental painting was eight people. Now forty five. Girls very much, as in many universities.

I'm watching the actual art from afar. All that is being done is in the early twentieth century. All these combine performance , performance and painting. Then it was true . Today the same thing , but the quality is much worse. Look modern buildings - most horror than joy ! And you look at the house of the early twentieth century and get aesthetic pleasure.

I mainly paint portraits . Already written two pieces . About five of them in order. But it while I'm learning. I'm wondering how on canvas depict internal and not external human condition . I try to put a dab of paint and more not to touch it , to keep it alive. Try primed canvas so that mosquito nose are not undermined . I pull the canvas as in the restoration workshop pull . Of course, the customer is important that you drew . But when he will turn the picture and see how everything carefully , it will be for him a separate pleasure ».

Vasily Sidorov
Professor MGAHI . Surikov, honorary president of the Union of Artists of Russia

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« We have no respect for the domain, we now have the respect of freedom of expression. Naked woman wanted to hang from the ceiling - please.

You know how many art museums in Paris ? Whatever the artist , the museum! Month can learn these little muzeychik . I raised the issue of the creation of the Museum in Moscow Levitan even when Avdeev. Lost the building where he worked the last ten years of his life . Movement in this direction is, but the decision has been made yet . I think this museum will enjoy great popularity . You know why? Levitan , being in Nice, wrote Apollinariju Vasnetsov : " Dear friend ! Longing seized me , no strength! And here in Russia is probably now spring, the river overflowed , beauty ! Only in Russia can be born a real landscape . No country is more beautiful than Russia ! " He was very sincere.

Why do not we have Korzheva Museum ? Why not Gerasimov Museum ? This is all the classics ! What artists were Grabar and Huon ! They all deserve museums. But we are a people generous. We were not up to it ! Other chores .

All our graduates feel irrelevance , because the Ministry of Culture does not carry out any acquisitions with our exhibitions - neither youth nor with the exhibition " Russian ." Afraid that this has been a long time. It should not be ! Everywhere, in all countries have an interest in the life of the state of the art .

Level students falls . In our workshop mainly something girls . But this profession is not feminine . And we're just looking . I've found a guy Rzhev . Art - the hard way , which many tragic . "
Salavat Scherbakov
sculptor, member of the Russian Academy of Arts , a member of the Arts Council of the Department of Culture of Moscow

"I am watching the actual art seventieth year . Now , coming to the exhibition of contemporary art , I ask myself : "Why ? " Contemporary art is not. What you call relevant, born one hundred years ago.

The main loss of the last decade - it is the loss due to the great Russian culture. Young people no longer know the names of Russian writers and artists. There were some new , random names and authorities . Russian man becomes just a biological being . And forget not only our culture. I teach sculpture, and students do not know who Mayol . This is a disaster .

If we take the culture of Russia until 1917 , we can say that it has been established . Then , a new culture - Soviet . The third option of culture - Western . Out of the three , the first , lost, proved most useful. It's one thing when this cultural layer mastered and another when not. Then there are the artists who perform in the temple , and put in prison .

We understand that the era of great already behind . Nevertheless, there is a school and direction , call it conservative. But the development , then it should be! The new policy should help drown that valuable. Need to shake hands with a sinking ship on which gold bullion culture. The modern art because there is a market , and there are those who support it .

The word "realism" arose from the work of the artist Courbet in the XIX century . He wrote not Wehner , and real women . Realism - this picture of social reality. For us it itinerants . Today, the word "realism" I would not have tried , it is not necessary. Here Vrubel - he is a realist or beyond realism ? It's just some great art .

Earlier in the Bolshoi Theater was Anna Pavlova . Who is now in great Bolshoi Theater ? In general, the art - it is a modest and timid . I would not want to drive a wedge between the artists and the best call someone .

We must re-learn to speak their language , so as not to lose identity. But it is difficult , arduous process of comprehension . This is not a toggle switch . It's harder than to become a master of avant-garde . As said Academician Likhachev , you can pretend to be anyone , kind, brave, intelligent man just can not pretend . Also can not pretend to be a realist . It's like being a ballet artist . It is always a high bar . "

Interview
    Hope Gorbushina

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Times have changed and the artist is not a profession , it is an expensive hobby if not Safronoskoy (or Hearst ) zvatki . ( Metaphorically speaking )
And for the bulk of the conceptualist is also a hobby, so let not whine to the vest and do not compare with the times when for drawing in "Crocodile" (or poem about Stalin /Lenin /Brezhnev paid as much as a farmer received per month ( or year ? - a lot in common , very much)