A good artist - a successful artist?

[dedulya37]

Сообщение от DSF

I think that is some remnant of the Soviet system, when the condition of promotion of administrative and artistic ladder and access to the feeder, it was necessary to participate in the exhibitions

Here I disagree with you.
In Soviet times, the artists participated in the exhibitions is not to "ladder and feeding", but in order to show the result of their work.
Different people have different temperaments and capacity for work, so more involved in almost every show, those who write slowly - not in each. While the desire to participate in a larger number of exhibitions have been at each. Himself a painter because he could not organize a solo exhibition, but for her, as you know, we must work to write. And while you write them and folded for future personal exhibition, one also has a family to feed.
It turns out that you're writing now, to put it, then buy it (or not), and for the FUTURE personalki you beg for it from a museum or get out of the closet, depending on where it is.
Mezhuyev incidentally was the same scheme and at the informal artists. Everyone wanted to show his work as a process, but these shows were not in the public halls, and on the flats.

Сообщение от DSF

You could be a ragamuffin and eat beer and cigarette butts, but if you have a folder under his arm was all-Union exhibitions, and with reproductions of your work, it sharply raised your status, and young colleagues began to bow to you for sex -mile.

I agree that artists are not always dressed as a dandy in London and liked to drink not just beer, but the young colleagues began to bow to you from a distance only if they respect you as an artist, but what you are an artist and what is your forward movement or backward , youth is just seen on these numerous exhibitions. And catalogs nothing to do with. They are, incidentally, is not always released on time. And if released, it only lists the names (at best), and only images printed poorly and only in black and white format.

Сообщение от DSF

Also, you probably would have been provided with a good order or purchase.

Not so simple as it seems. Not all have been purchasing and orders.
Much depended on Comrade. Lehmann (if not mistaken).
But there are undercurrents in any organization.

And by and large much erased from memory and modern people just idealize the past from stories. It is now considered "wild" to perceive, was the norm for that time.
Example: Try it now Luzhkov specify Tsereteli monument to him what height do you know where to Luzhkov?
But comrade. Grishin, crafts and others like them indicate artists "as necessary", the result is th ... oh, and now everything is frowning on "socialist realism" and repudiate him like the plague.