Chronology of Russian art-emigration

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от Wladzislaw

why the USSR should be equal to Russia? And why artists should be Russian? Why is this not a list of Moldovan art emigration? ... They need to write as it is - "artists-emigrants from the USSR".

On this subject, well thought. It would seem Solomonic decision - called the artists "rossiiyskimi" from Russia, from Russia Empire. In this case, the passport nationality is not important - the Jew, Moksha, Shoksha, Erzya, molodovanin etc. But the approach, by contrast, was flawed and segregational. Talking is not Russian, but Russia's artist, you like podmigavesh left eye. Type, honored man, he worked in the USSR, Russia, in the Empire, but we are well aware that in fact he was not Russian. So correctly, I think, to stop winking and all called Russian artists, even those who are not of Russian nationality. We here at Rothko, Nevelson, Soutine, Kandinsky, Kabakov, Rabin - essentially Russian artists. And Arshila Gorki we also took to himself.