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Done average portrait of a young Russian artist

Journal Artchronika "was a portrait of an average young Russian artist. The material formed the questionnaire distributed to participants of Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art "Stop! Who goes there?" and students and graduates of art schools. Reply to the questionnaire agreed to 60 people.
The average age of a young artist - 22-25 years old (the oldest respondents in 1933); girls among them a little more than boys. Most molhudov (as they are called the authors "Artchronika") from Moscow and St. Petersburg, followed by Perm and Yekaterinburg. 60 percent are studios, the rest do not need them. Only 15 percent of those surveyed want to move to other cities and countries. Completed art education have less than a quarter of respondents, and half considered it unnecessary. Beginner artist is not able to live on the proceeds from the sale of works actively disseminates information about their work on the Internet, has formed his political views.

"Answers to the questions' Is there any taboo subjects in the arts?" and 'What is now the most important thing in art? " distributed as a paradoxical way. One-third of artists felt that the hard sex and pornography, death, violence (and animal), and nationalism are banned, as many respondents said that these topics The fundamental for the arts in our time '- writes Artchronika' . The question "What is art", according to the magazine, molhudy failed.

My favorite artists respondents chose Matisse, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Dali and Bosch, among the creators of the twentieth century the first place are Duchamp, Warhol and Prigov. His immediate predecessors - "artists of the nineties, the avant-garde 80th, Conceptual, non-conformists, and representatives of the Russian avant-garde" - molhudy have not noticed, the work of Oleg Kulik, they recognized insignificant for both myself and for the history of culture.

"This type is not similar to the one being promoted in the media, and has received awards in major galleries personalki. Apparently, when you become a real artist, the definition of 'young' loses its value," - concludes that "Artchronika.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/07/15/artist/