What is art?

[tchaika]

How to make "new art» said Vladimir Soloukhin:
http://books.prometey.org/read/l4/page98/1840.html

"Back in the twenties (XX-th century). One part of the Russian intelligentsia, nor merchants, business and government people who went abroad, emigrated. The other part was lost during the Civil War. The third part of it went through special camps, through the Lubyanka, through the provincial departments of the Cheka, that is, in short, was annihilated on the spot. The fourth part - the survivors, nedorezannye - turned into accountants, bookkeepers, vmeditsinskih nurses, nannies, in pishbaryshen (ie typists), well and in such professions. In short, the Russian intelligentsia-standing otkristallizovavshayasya for several centuries, the intelligentsia, speaks several languages and intellectuals, Rodion that no year, from the depths of their Blocks, Chaliapin Stanislavsky, Mendeleyev, Gumilev, created Tretyakov Art Gallery and the Rumyantsev museum that is building palaces and churches, - the intelligentsia was virtually destroyed, scattered to the winds, and in its place a vacuum. This vacuum was to suck into itself, in order to fill up, new people who could somehow play the role of intellectuals, and then replace it.
     
Who is this vacuum could suck? Chapaev and Petya, peasants from the plow, working at the bench, porters, bricklayers, joiners and carpenters were not then ready for the role of intellectuals. But who was ready and who has filled the vacuum?
     
With the seizure of power by the International , feeling that their hour has come from numerous places and towns flooded into the capital and other major cities of the peripheral masses. They were watchmakers, jewelers, photographers, newspaper reporterishki, hairdressers, musicians from the small provincial orchestra ...
All of this provincial mass and filled the vacuum created by the site scattered to the winds of the Russian intelligentsia. Was then that began in Moscow by the famous self-packing, sealing, crowded communal apartment. The main thing - to cling to the Moscow, the capital. And it was easy to catch, because authority for warrants, controlled his people. Check Moscow periphery was a conscious policy these people.
In the twenties, and there was a de facto occupation of Moscow peripheral masses. To adjust the captured Moscow to their tastes, was destroyed in her old Russian, and it was decided to drop the bell.

Known peripheral mass that settled in Moscow ... lightning scattered in different institutions, the Commissariat, Commander, Office. But above all, the editors of newspapers, magazines, publishers, music schools, colleges, conservatories, in theaters, and the Moscow Concert Philharmonic Society. They filled the different departments and associations of artists, movies, writers, architects, composers, advertising agencies, radio. Well, as well as medicine.
     This was, again, it is very easy to do, because the head of every newspaper, every magazine, every publishing house - were placed around their people, who encouraged the process is not the introduction, this word would have been weak, but grasping all the arts and all media, ie, all means of influence on the population of the country, so unexpectedly inherited them in undivided ownership.

If, however, revealed some kind of glibness pen, not to mention some skills, then all at once - boom, big name, a genius, like Mikhail Koltsov, which was built almost to the rank of the first reporter of the Soviet Union, while at this level could write any pre-revolutionary newsman and journalist. When there is a partial implementation, have to adapt to the environment, which is being implemented, and when the filling and the seizure, we must adapt to a captured environment.
     In journalism and administrative areas it was less necessary, because the invaders themselves have been among. But the art of the business gets more complicated. One thing to write a weather report or even an article, another thing to paint a picture, poem, novel, poem. Here the environment is not only today, but the whole of Russian culture, all literature, all music, all the paintings, with Moussorgsky and Pushkin, Tchaikovsky and Blok, Nekrasov and Dostoevsky, with Roerich and Vrubel, Stanislavski and Chekhov and Levitan Antokolsky .. .
     
What was the power of Russian culture in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century, if she had been a peaceful Assimilation insoluble, intractable effects no acid soul! Yes, Levitan, Serov - the great Russian artists. The same can be said about the sculptor Antokol's'kogo or about Rubinstein. The same can be said about artists adapters, that is, about those who took leaven even from Russia, but lived and worked in Soviet times. This could include Pasternak, Chukovsky M. ...
     So when Levitan worked in an environment of Chekhov, Kustodiev, Nesterova, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Chaliapin, tens, dozens of other speakers of the Russian national spirit, he becomes a Russian artist. There seems, however, and for all Russian artists, was a process similar to natural selection. However, when in the twenties to Moscow poured thousands of greedy, expansive young people and everyone wanted to become a painter, poet, musician, and formally they have become the medium, but objectively proved in the company of Pushkin and Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky and Chekhov (hereinafter - the names of the great figures of Russian culture), it was necessary to either adapt to this environment, or adapt it to himself. Other way they had not.

     Gadgets medium proceeded on two fronts. Firstly, to form public opinion, that everything was "up" - will not do. Pushkin - from the ship today! Clear all the museums of old paintings and create new museums with paintings, beginning with the 17th year.
     Here, if you please, a declaration of Malevich about old and new art:
"We had predicted in their statements to the overthrow of the academic stuff, and spit on the altar of his shrine. But to realize the facts of our revolutionary entered, you must create a revolutionary group but implementation of new reforms in the country. With such an organization is a pure crystallization of ideas and a complete cleaning of the area from any debris of the past. We must act with the old - more than ever to bury him in the cemetery, it is necessary to clean off their resemblance to your face ".
Magazine "Art", № 1 - 2, 1919.

     Thus was created the zero mark, the beginning of scale on which it was possible to measure out of new poets and artists.
     Bet Casino, Zharov and Bezymensky near Blok and Gumilev's like to put a box of matches next to the ten-house. If the size of a matchbox to put on an empty table, it will still object, standing on the table will grow, organize, so to speak, the landscape of the table, cast a shadow, and in general look.
So, one way was clear and simple. To cut, to separate all that was to clear the table, turn Russian poetry in a white sheet of paper, and from zero to start over. The new scale, the new criteria, a new scale, that's the case. The point scale.
   
      Then these young, full of strength, energy, and, frankly, nerve periferiytsy, inundated Moscow, began to produce the so-called new left, supernovae and sverhlevoe art. Kruchenykh writes: "Dyr bul schir ubeschur ..." and argues that in this line of his more popular, national, than all of Pushkin. "More, more! - chorus. - Down with Pushkin, long live the" holes Blvd schir ubeschur "!" In painting, paint on canvas squares, triangles, and is determined by an innovative art. Down Nesterov, down Wrubel, Down Surikov and Roerich, long live Malevich!
Returning to the Declaration of Malevich, this time on poetry.
"I think most senior moments ministry and spirit of the poet, saying without words, through the mouth when the words run mad, mad, no intellect, no reason not postigaemy. Here neither skill nor art can not be that hard because of land encumbered with other sensations and objectives.

                              ULE Ele Lee Kon Cu Ru
                              Onon Cory Rea Koasambi Moena Lège
                              Sabno Odadt Tulozh Koalibi
                              Blestore
                              Tivo Oreana Alijó.

That is to exhaust its highest active a poet, and these words can not recruit and nobody can imitate him ". (ibid).
     
But if the gold under the poetic line to become the best examples of poetry will be able to write only a talented man, only a poet, that 'Oue "," Java "will agree, can write each. If a prayer Nesterovskiy landscape painting, or send a curfew over pleso can only brilliant artists to paint a black square on a white background, or two intersecting squares, or two different colors of the square, you will agree, is available to everyone.
Now imagine a gathering of people engaged in pseudo , and conscious that their art was confirmed. Otherwise you all will burst like a soap bubble. Can they afford to close them rang true poetry, were written these pictures? Where, then go to them? So, imagine a bunch of these people, their laughter and hate, their hooting if suddenly stood up to there, among the rabble, the golden man and began to read loud and clear voice:

                     Indescribable, blue, tender
                         Tux is my province after the storms, after thunderstorms
                         And my soul - the field boundless,
                         Breathing the smell of honey and roses.
                         I calmed down. The years have accomplished something
                         But what has passed, do not swear.
                         Like three horses unbridled
                         Rolled by in the entire country.
                         Grew a circle. Nakopytili.
                         And lost a devilish whistle.
                         And now the forest monastery
                         Even hear the leaves fall ...

This gathering, such Klondike of art and Moscow was the twenties. Supported in all these Pegasus' Stall, LEFah, Nothingist, all these poetic or taverns that offers great opportunities for unholy trash or middling, like casinos and Bezymensky with Zharov, competition, which could be no danger.
     Now imagine what they could feel the midst of this rabble truly talented people like Comedy.
     Ways to combat them could be different. Bulgakov received 380 abusive, vilified articles in various newspapers and magazines.
     Mayakovsky, adapting their talents to the environment and generally adaptable to the environment, even buried in it through Brik, calls for planting in the auditorium of his Moscow Art Theater in the number of people two hundred people who booed on purpose to play by Bulgakov.
     From Yesenin through gossip and stories created the image of a hooligan and an alcoholic.

Bright lad, who came from the dew, the flowers, the bells, looking out of rye fields, the good, suddenly found himself in the Klondike of art in Moscow twenties, from which David Burliuk sends a telegram to his friends in Odessa: "Come, you can make the famous .
     A white dove among crows. He tried to adapt. Several people have declared themselves Imagists - in the spirit of the time. It can be seen outside of the band then just could not exist. "Nothingniks", "LEF", "dog box", "Constructivists. Devised and a distinctive sweep these - the image of self-sufficient. But no Imagism, of course, was not. It was only a poet Sergei Yesenin, instinctively trying to adapt to modern times.
     And another form of its response to the environment. A white dove deliberately begins to blacken and sully its snowy plumage, and then nibbled it to be like at all. He felt that this was not just a drunken poetic taverns, develop a spirit of greed, competition, not just orgy greedily until the fat cake of tramps, but then for all this organized and evil force , against whom do not even know how to stand, because its like no, but it is. " It did not seem to see, not feel, do not materializuesh in a single image, but it is everywhere, in each newspaper row, every remark, every gloating laughter ...

Some may say that we exaggerate, depicting the situation in the arts in the twenties. You never know what Auerbach held in his hands all the history of literature, Malevich and Shterenberg commanded in painting, and destroying Russian Meyerhold Theatre, jeer Ostrovsky and Gogol. It's all subjective, says it's all out of love for Russia from the commitment to its past greatness, biased and tendentious.
     But it is possible in this case to call a witness is not someone else, as Mayakovsky. You know how he was there in his element, he participated in the creation of a deliberate chaos, which could fly and adapt future intellectuals. But his dopeklo, and finally exploded:

                     Appearing in CCC bright future years
                    Above the band of poetic self-seekers and burning
                    I will raise, as the Bolshevik Party card
                    All one hundred volumes of my party books.

Word uttered. Banda. A gang of poetic self-seekers and burning. Here's the situation of those years in literature, literary criticism, theater, painting, all kinds of art.
For all that it was important not to forget that all this confusion should be aimed at denationalization, the destruction of people's values.

By the time of Lenin's death was all done, all are in place. Key government agencies suppression, leadership, power in the hands of the International. Cheka (the OGPU, NKVD, KGB), the army and the Central Committee headed and not only leads, but also to control all secondary instances internationalists. "

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Сообщение от tchaika

Key public bodies suppression, leadership, power in the hands of the International.

As for "Internetsional" this?
I know this hymn, the Internationale. He was the anthem and the Soviet Union to 44 th, and the anthem of the CPSU (b), later the Communist Party, and stayed. And now is the anthem of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the Russian Communist Workers' Party-Revolutionary Party of Communists (RCWP-PKK), as well as the Revolutionary Communist Youth League (Komsomol (b)).
You mean this?
Or about the one for which Chapaev was?
- Vasily Ivanovich, there muzhuki ask, you worry yourself ... for the Bolsheviks Al for the communists?
- I for the Internationale! (c)

[Любознательный]

[QUOTE=Cyril Syzranskiy;1121232] What's the "Internationale" was that?
There are facts that do not necessarily remember.
Today.

Internationals (not a song) was 4.
IV Internationale was founded by Trotsky after he kicked out of the country.

On the topic.
Fasting, in my opinion, not a given topic.
Kasha sort of powered, but all the known facts.
However, this position affirms immortality of this art.
Long time no people who for the sake of power available to the crowd shouted.
They are not, and Pushkin and Levitan alive.
In the words of Mayakovsky: "Hurry up all living.

Unfortunately, in our country everything is repeated.
And the crowd screaming, and a crowd of cattle and trehizvilinnye calls ..
Yes, and the conquest of Moscow is not the best representatives of the peripheral (the present) of Russia.
However, there is an opportunity and not to participate in all doeth beskudstve - but simply to practice your favorite art.
The right choice is always, even when there is no law.
As such.

[Peter]

tchaika, I think that article you posted confirms once again that the processes taking place in the art fully reflect the state of society and the processes it proishodyaschie.Iskusstvo is an objective barometer, whether we like it at the moment or not. Art is always greater, but not always high. (This is my paradoxical assumption)

[Fed]

Here the question whether the interest-mapping of various processes in society and somebody else other than the authors of this art.
And again, touches everything - that is art?
Extremist example, exhibition of works by the mentally ill out of hospitals, great art or not? Is it an objective barometer?

[Peter]

In this context, art as a collective concept of a large number of created works for some time, not only in painting .. Each author does not think about processes in society, but the trends certainly est.Vystavki mentally ill only confirm that such people we have. Their art is local, as part of a large, but among them do not exclude the work of high order, can be very rare (as all high art).

[Peter]

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Art-lover, Il'in better in the past, than no one in the future. ..... And that means, and gave us occasion to reflect on the day of bread.

Re-reading Ivan Ilyin think how relevant his ideas to date, nothing has changed for the better in humanity, and aspirations, hopes all the same ... As a model he thought, looking at my diary.

[Peter]

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Re-reading Ivan Ilyin think how relevant his ideas to date, nothing has changed for the better in humanity, and aspirations, hopes all the same ... As an example of his thinking, look at my diary.

Well, I was given this Ilyin <!--~ a ~-->."... Speak of love in modern art, and you all turn around, as the old eccentric profana.Sovremennoe art is a thing unleashed imagination technical skills and organized reklamy.Sentimentalnoe art had outlived its time, and this was the age of shepherdesses and romantikov.Nyne reigns invents and daring skill with his "splash" sound of spices and spectacular izlomami.I modern painter knows only two 'emotions: envy on failure, and self-righteousness, in the case of success. "

Written more than half a century ago.

[L-ana64110]

The artist is always the product of its time. And the processes occurring in society in some way affect the work-in theme or in the way of expression, and rightly so.

[tchaika]

"Complacency artists - the surest sign of the decline of art." (Romain Rolland)