Collector Raymond Johnson

[Meister]

Сообщение от Eugene

the main and most interesting artistic direction of Russian art of the twentieth century has been and remains realistic.

Сообщение от Eugene

- By the way, Russia's art Maria Bulanova convinced that Socialist Realism had a decisive influence on the development of world art in the twentieth century.

With all due respect, but this is ridiculous.

[Евгений]

Elena Fanailova: Let's talk in earnest about where it in fact is a watershed. Because, really, zhiznepodobiya very much. Realism can be called anything, we have listed themselves - the magical realism, socialist realism, critical realism. We want the truth from art or do we want "us to elevate deception" and then we no realism at all, then do not need, or for some reason we still need the realism in the paintings, we have to learn something? What?
First Lady Tar: Realism - it is the only direction that, in addition to that it is a historical style, and even philosophical problems.

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We can not say nothing about the Baroque, nor about the Renaissance, nor there, about the modernist style, nor about anything else. Here Malevich wanted to Suprematism came down to this path. For him, this sense of realism was a model, because the realism, if we look in the dictionary or the Internet got, we will find a lot of philosophical texts, which since at least medieval theology, examined this problem, the problem of reality in principle. So we are infinitely encounter this one question: is there truth in art? The question is how to understand it. If you understand how a certain image sufficiently precise, say, a person's appearance ... Everything is somehow like to criticize the Soviet art, because there is a portrait of Stalin painted unfair to, because in fact Stalin was a short, ugly, pock-marked man, but on Portrait of Isaac Izrailevych Brodsky drawn in such a handsome Georgian. And such revelations. Especially in an era of perestroika have written that this is not real art, because it is not realistic. This, of course, a funny conversation, because such tasks at the beginning, perhaps, the art of ancient Greece were set to draw a bunch of grapes so that the birds flocked and started to bite. But then the philosophical tension of such an image as a somewhat weakened, and in the twentieth century, such a task before him is not an artist creates. The notion of truth, of course, goes beyond how something outwardly similar. Again, not described in all categories - true or false. Art in general is in some other plane, where these things are not so primitive solved.

   Matthew Bown: Techniques realistic at all, is the common heritage, common language. But when we look back, say, the Renaissance, we come to the conclusion that Michelangelo - not a realist, and Caravaggio - a realist. We look at the Dutch art, we come to the conclusion that in fact Rembrandt - a realist. Somewhere there in our simple understanding of the realism of this one thing that you said - the truth about life. It was very important, of course, in all these debates about Soviet realism. You can argue how the artists achieved the Soviet to the truth, that she could be in the twentieth century, but in the end, we all come back again and again to this simple concept of realism.
http://www.svobodanews.ru/articlete....70318120057160

[Евгений]

Several interesting ideas about art .. (Cricket Guelphs and Ghibellines).
From the article: "Americans rehabilitate Socialist Realism"
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"..... Created in 2002 by Raymond Johnson's private collection, the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis - the largest collection of Russian art outside Russia: in his fund holds about 16 thousand exhibits - mostly of the Soviet period. The museum has already become famous by making joint projects with the Tretyakov Pathways Russian impressionism (GTG, 2003), "In the tradition of Russian Art" (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 2005). Exhibition in Washington during the summer of 70 thousand people attended .

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"Reflections" - it's 25 paintings by artists, worked for the state, and in their free time to write the social order "for themselves." This explains the high quality of work: "leave" the artists with all the passion is not indulged in ideological and plastic research. This also explains their presence in the collection of Ray Johnson - usually such work does not diverge to museums, and settled in the workshops. Such a workshop and visited by an American collector in the first half of the 90's. Artists parted with his canvases with gratitude to the Americans are not so much for the material (although at the time it was a matter of survival), but for moral support - her while they were not needed.

But for some fifteen years, it became clear that not all so good it was in non-conformism, as not so bad was socialist realism. And after 30 years, perhaps, the opposition official and unofficial art in the Soviet Union will be perceived as struggle Guelphs and Ghibellines. Anyway, one of the pages of the history of the domestic arts - Soviet and tear it can not: indecent, and the book to pieces. In our country there is always the drama of someone willing to repress or to rehabilitate. In this case, certificate of rehabilitation of social realism came from overseas. It's safe - to make sure everything is in place, we definitely need to see your reflection in the mirror of the West. I wonder what the U.S. Socialist Realism is demonstrated for the first time not as a cultural, ethnographic material, as well as art - the similarities between our two countries with regard to the addition of national school of painting, obviously. Artists were brought in almost medieval pattern: they got to school, perfected over the years in the continuing tradition, good living by performing public contracts. But the USSR was the reserve of painting - traditional artists have been preserved in our country to this day, while enjoying the freedom of their American counterparts to drop these thorny venture still in pre-war ........"
http://www.gif.ru/themes/culture/rus...zm/view_print/

Сообщение от Eugene

.... Collector Raymond Johnson: in my collection of many pictures Tkachev brothers ...

Сообщение от dedulya37

It looks like they where 375 pieces

That's how Russian art of losing ...
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Guelphs and Ghibellines - Wikipedia http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Гвельфы