THE FALL OF ART William Barrows
A few years ago in London, I asked Jasper Johns - what is the meaning of art that actually makes artists? He parried the question: "What is the meaning of writing?" Then I could not find the words, now I have the answer:
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The purpose of writing is to make the event happen. What we call "art" - painting, sculpture, literature, dance, music - the magic of their origin. This is because it was originally used in ritual aims to create a very specific effects. In the world of magic, nothing happens until someone does not want anything to happen - there are specific magic formulas for posting and direction will. Artist is trying to make something happen in the mind of the viewer or reader. During the heyday of painting in the style of a cow in the meadow "answer to the question" What is the meaning of this painting? "Was very simple - to make the picture passed into the mind of the viewer, forced him to inhale the smell of cows, grass, manure, listen to the shepherd's horn. The influence of art is not less convincing when it indirectly. Let the riots, fires and accidents journalists. The influence of art lies in the far-reaching cultural impact. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso - Broken wrote a script embracing cultural revolution. Recall that thirty years ago, the word «fuck» could not appear on the printed page. Now, with the collapse of censorship and the release of the World, "New York Times prints« fuck », uttered by the President of the United States. We can trace the impressive indirect effect written word, but what about the indirect influence of painting? I already explained how in 1959, Brion Gaisin said that literature is lagging behind the painting for fifty years, and moved the equipment installation in a letter - the technique used in painting for half a century. As you know, subject-position of the visual artists were kicked out, like a stool out from under the feet of hanged man, photography, the embodiment of what was somewhere at the turn of the century photo exhibition "Photography - Death of Painting". Several premature, but the painting still had to find a new perspective on the world. So the artists first turned to installation. Now the installation is actually much closer to the fact of perception than representational painting. Stroll along the city streets and put what you have just seen on canvas. You saw a man cut in two by machine, scraps, pieces of road signs and advertisements, the reflection in shop windows - installation of fragments. The same thing happens with words. Remember that the written word - the image. Method "razrezok" Brion Gysin is cutting the pages of text and line-derived fragments in the assembly combinations. A representative painting is dead, until, perhaps, photo-realism have not ever come into its own. Nobody draws grazing cows. Installation - the old way of painting. But if you apply the method of installation in the letter, the accused critics of spreading the cult of incomprehensibility. The letter is still limited to a consistent representativeness straitjacket of the novel, the form is as arbitrary as the sonnet, and as far away from the real facts of human perception and consciousness, as a poetic form of the fifteenth century. Consciousness - cutting; life - cutting. Every time you walk down the street or look out the window, your stream of consciousness cut random moments. Over the past one hundred years of painting done exclusively by way of subject-izobrazitelskih position to a situation where any artist can bring a similar material to such a state of fragmentation in which everyone should have his own handwriting where before was only room for one. Anyone can draw a rustic landscape, but there is only one place for a soup tureen Andy Warhol. Each artist now presents its own direction. Here's a question for all schools: If the art has undergone such a radical redrawing of the past century, that will do the artists in the next fifty or a hundred years? Of course, we can foresee expansion into the region of subversive art ... Self-exploding television sets, refrigerators, washing machines, electric cookers and dying, producing damage in the dull modern apartments, terrible dreams housewives fly past the barrier of impact resistant glass that protects the spectators. Now imagine for you, young hunters in the art, the new subject of study: there is an explosive, known as ammonium iodide, obtained by diluting ammonium iodide crystals (salts yodistovodorodnoy acid) or mixing it with the tincture to dissolve dyes. The resulting compound, when dry, - so sensitive that it can explode even a fly. I remember how far twenties I had to kill the day time as follows: I have scattered around the small heaps of sugar ammonium iodide and waited flies explode in a haze of purple vapor. So you can draw your picture with ammonium iodide and syrup, but run a swarm of flies in the gallery ... or people passing by, it will blow up the vibrations of our bodies ... or a gang of boys choir podobet its own Pugach ... Sodium metal and explodes violently on contact with water, so that you can draw sodium (leaving on the canvas magnificent glow, like the back of silver fish in clean water), then retreat to a decent distance and shoot a picture of a water gun or make Naja cobra to spit in it and explode in the performance of official duties. Not far off a sacrificial art? Cut the chicken head and draw blood flowing. Disembowels sheep and draw her intestines. Or you can make a combo with sodium idea. Then you will see Crazy Bear Floyd, artist-billionaire, which covered twenty-foot assembly porn pictures tysyachedollarovymi cuts, soaked in ammonium iodide ... installation was lying in the middle of the gallery, then the top basket was emptied tysyachedollarovyh bills, which blew up and threw the piece of money circulation, due to the fire, about a million dollars. Without derogating from the cashier, his agent sold burnt canvas for ten million. Could this proliferation of competing approaches to overthrow us into the abyss of the revival of the ancient potlatch? Potlatch - controversial destruction of property, carried out so far, until one of the players has not completely ruined, and often do not die of shame on the spot. It is interesting to look at the American tycoons, who have entrenched themselves in this game - shattering their factories and mines, oil wells, burning crops, flooding the beaches of oil, subjecting to radiation their land, irrigate them with salt water, leaving frozen products to rot in the hot sun burning their Rolls Royce and Bentley, the originals by Rembrandt, smashing Greek statues jackhammers ... American Tale from the Pentagon asleep States atomic bombs, while Russia and China did not enter into competition, and a bomb after bomb fly to their towns and villages. Potlatch was invented by Indians north-west coast in the area, which is now British Columbia, and served most of their pastime. These celebrations uncomfortable destroyed many items, including salmon roe, blankets, copper discs (insignia and wealth). Caviar thrown into the fire that blazed in the center of the wigwam, with a crash lopayas and often searing faces dignitaries in the front row, which, according to the ceremony, were obliged not to show any signs of displeasure. Copper discs - engraved plate of thin copper, the size of two to three feet (30.48 cm), now appreciate as antiques. Copper disk (Copper) was estimated after a series of potlatch, through which he passed: "This is a great copper disk before whom OTHER copper disc OBOSSYVAYUTSYA HOW DOGS bitch". And the rest Copper cower in a corner, losing its price. You see, a powerful copper disk, as this is so much value units, as well as objects of contemporary art are well-deserved price after a number of competitive manipulation: This notorious tureen may be fifty-burning cooking devices - they can be burned fifty kitchen chairs, twenty wall-mounted urinals and Vietnamese pig. Adversarial sverhinflyatsiya values can lead to La Chute del \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 'Art (Art of the Fall): total collapse of the art market. Imagine the artistic Stock Exchange, where all the artists stand beside their canvases - frantic telephone calls from brokers, collectors ... "With your condition over, BJ. You need to fill a gap in first-class goods - you know what I mean: Monet, Renoir, Rembrandt, Picasso ... "And later: PICASSO devalues CUTTING AFTER ALL ITS PRODUCTS throwing on the market Mad Dealers ... As soon as the artist falls overboard Exchange, Department of Health forced him to surrender the painting in a public crematorium. What is art and which artists will survive this carnage? Is it time to take notice, BJ? Now is the art grabbed you by the balls, you understand? It gave you in the pit of my stomach and the powder with your eyes. So now the artist is drawn to his painting as a Punch and Judy, trawling through her lack of criticism of the lapel, beats him inside and sprayed with tear gas. You are preparing to attack a variety of ways. The dead cow in the meadow. Dogs jump for lovers of painting directly from the paintings. Guests vernissage savagely beaten with batons watercolor police. In the end, it turns out that all the pictures of dangerous animals, electric chairs, riots, fires and explosions are a gallery in its disposal. Perhaps the dead cow suddenly come alive and put them on the first number of light wandered criticism? Yesterday, one gored. Another drowned in the river, Monet, and the exhibition of Bacon gave impetus to the adverse mutations ... What happened here? Art has become a literal and returned to its magical functions - do so to make it happen - after a long link in the fields of imagination, his appetite has grown too happenings. And now suddenly the art makes its deadly eruption in the so-called real world. Letter and paintings were in the beginning, and the word was written way. Now artists paint the future before it is written, ahead of mentally retarded twins, literature, leaving her behind with ABC. Catch a fallen flag of a letter? The writer, who writes a book on uncultivated virgin soil epidemics, saturates their pages described by viruses ... in a book about Poland during the typhus epidemic typhus lice hide in the cover, immediately ran out as soon as "salon knigomesyachnye ladies" will begin to turn the pages. Mektub (Mektoub). It is written. In other radioactive Pages lightly flavored with botulism. The reader can no longer be safe to read about sharks, as long as she burp him a sharp smell of chocolate, at the strongest shark pathogen. Other neglected coarse jokes and rely on the forces of magic - powerful spells and curses, often supported by human sacrifices, awakened by these disastrous pages. Beauty kills. Beauty - killer "- in the words of Gregory Corso, and painting reunited with her unruly brother, writing, books, completely made in pictorial form. Since then, all the books exude a fragrance of the odors, and readers are provided bottles of spirits for the revival ... Musk Ozone rotting Konin, Open Changing ... Finally, comes the turn of the Master open page, which can be read only dedicated ... LA CHUTE DU MOT (FALL WORDS) ... bukvalizatsii of art survive timeless, ever-changing world of magic, caught the artist's brush or the words of the writer, pieces of bright and endangered parts. Legions of artists can dance in space at the end of the brush, and the writer otklanivaetsya silently and disappears in the alphabet. Translation: Alex Quervain, 1997
William Seward Burroughs was born February 5, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of well-known industrialists. His grandfather was a founder of Burroughs, still exists today and the production of computers. From 1932 to 36 year Burroughs studies at Harvard University at the Faculty of English literature. After graduation, he traveled to Europe. In 1937, Burroughs is in Vienna, where he is going to study medicine. In Austria, it is fictitious to a certain Jewish woman marries Ilse Klapper, saving her from the Nazis. Returning to America, Burroughs while studying anthropology in graduate school Garvada. In 1941 he called in the army, but a few months later dismissed from the service (the reasons for dismissal are uncertain).
At the end of 1943 in New York, Burroughs met the future well-known writers, beatniks Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. With the first Burroughs after a while sharply at variance in attitudes, with Ginsberg also will maintain an excellent relationship throughout his life.
In 1944, Burroughs meets with a young student of Joan Volmer, they soon begin to live together unmarried. By the 40-m years otnostyatsya and the first literary experiments of the future writer. Around the same time, Burroughs began using drugs, he quickly becomes addicted to morphine, while his wife sits on benzedrine. In 1947, Joan gives birth to a son - William S. Burroughs Jr.. Because of problems with the law family has to constantly move from place to place, until in the early 50's is not in Mexico.
September 6, 1951 in Mexico City, an event occurs, which determined the fate of Burroughs as a writer. Playing the "William Tell", a drunken Burroughs vystelom pistol accidentally mortally wounds his wife. After the death of his wife Burroughs is sent on a journey through South America in search of a hallucinogen Yakha used by local shamans. His road experience he describes in his letters Ginsberg, later, these letters will be published in book form. Around the same time, Burroughs creates his first novel, "Junkie" and "Queer". The novel "Junkie", which describes the addiction to heroin, it is possible to publish in a small New York publishing house in 1953. The theme of the second book (it is easy to guess from the title) is homosexuality, to release it in McCarthyite America, it is impossible, and it remained unpublished until 1985. The first works of Burroughs will remain the only books written in the traditional manner.
After leaving South America, Burroughs, after a little wandering around Europe goes to Tangiers - a city in northern Morocco - a popular after the war among American homosexuals and drug addicts forced to leave their homeland. Tangier in the 50's is famous for its availability corrupt sex and drugs. Here, Burroughs began work on a new product, which will subsequently his most famous novel, "Naked Lunch". The book is written "mosaic" method, which later transformed into a "method cuts» (cut-up technique). Burrows assembles a novel from the documentary records of his heroin addiction, their own lies on homosexuality, pornographic descriptions of the various distortions and, finally, drugs images of Tangiers, who turns in the consciousness of the author in some InterZone (Interzone), inhabited by undercover agents, half-crazed doctors, and all kinds of mutants . "Naked Lunch" can not publish in 1959 in France in the famous Parisian English-speaking pornoizdatelstve "Olympia". In America, the book goes on trial on charges of obscenity. In defense of the novel serve Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg. After lengthy proceedings in 1966, all charges against "naked lunch" are removed, and the scandal of which occurred only contributes to the popularity of the book. Burroughs novel "Naked Lunch" - one of the most important works of American literature of the second half of XX century.
His following works of Burroughs has created a "method cuts, which the writer learns from his friend, poet and painter Brion Gysin. This technique was first proposed letter Dadaists in the 20 years, but few Burroughs transforms it. The essence of the writer's method is simple. In all his travels Burrows does not leave with a notebook, lined on three columns. In the first he recorded various facts about the situation around, heard snatches of phrases, dialogues in the second - personal impressions, thoughts, memories, and finally, the third contains quotations from a book and read at the moment. Actually these columns, and mounted a future book. But unlike the Dadaists Burroughs very meticulously suited to line up the various pieces and then editing the text. The first trilogy of Burroughs' Soft Machine "are the novels The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded", "Express" Supernova ". (Sometimes these works are considered as the continuation of "naked lunch" in a single tetralogy.)
Burroughs died Aug. 2, 1997 at the age of 83 years. Despite the abuse of heroin, and many casual sexual relationships, the writer survived his wife, son and most of his friends (including Ginsberg). According to some reports, the cause of death was an overdose of drugs.
Maybe artists in general will learn to paint (now mostly lost equipment such as multi-layered painting), and we could safely proceed in the Renaissance, the study of proportions?
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COOL! Here is a biography! It should be required reading! Thank you, Gans, for the interesting information ... and on a decent photo taco grandfather ...
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What we call "art" - painting, sculpture, literature, dance, music - the magic of their origin. This is because it was originally used in ritual aims to create a very specific effects. In the world of magic, nothing happens until someone does not want anything to happen - there are specific magic formulas for posting and direction will. Artist is trying to make something happen in the mind of the viewer or reader.
There is reason to predpolat that the magic of art indeed - and significantly - associated with the art of magic, but this relationship is very capricious: it hardly correlates with the will of the artist, but is closely related to unconscious processes and ...
Stop there, so as not to distract attention from the contemporary Ukrainian art.
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"The Fall of Art" is first and foremost in the minds of people who are accustomed only to contemplate and do nothing. This happens every fall. artists, of course, is no exception. Why do something and be able to know when enough to rummage in the garbage barrel and lay poluzgnivshie rzbituyu products on a plate and season with all this bloody ear stray dogs and using the syringes. And the signature simple - fucking my life. Just something like, introduced yesterday, "Pinchuk Center. All of Burroughs. Here, a novel may be appropriate for a couple of days nakropat, and music, and something else. Requiem ..........
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Just something like, introduced yesterday, "Pinchuk Center".
This is just something that we are amateurs so's called "actual" art. They are relevant today, severed heads, protruding gut, tablets under glass, etc. All of this is "the art of contemporary relevance." They call us from the sublime - to the lowland; from the world - to the darkness, from the poetic - to glyukogennomu ..... And you can argue about the high artistic talent fortification animals. This - Clinic ....
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"Inspiration - a passionate enthusiasm uncertain desires, there is a state of mind, available to all, especially in his younger years, an artist, it is true that a few specialized, heading to the desire to recreate something, but it still remains only a form, do you have to shake hands hysterical and calm artisans. " M. Vrubel
"At one share of talent to have ten times as much diligence and ability to work. Giving is like our inner body, which can, like muscles, develop KF Huon
There is reason to predpolat that the magic of art indeed - and significantly - associated with the art of magic, but this relationship is very capricious: it hardly correlates with the will of the artist, but is closely related to unconscious processes, and. ..
I, actually, on the subject quoted M. Vrubel and K. Juon. These two concepts are quite different based on the effects - magic effect on the psyche and one hemisphere of the brain, through psycho-physical connections and unconsciously (and not at all), and painting - to another, visually and consciously.
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I just want to recall that Charles Saatchi himself two years ago acknowledged utopian trends is associated to "in conservation or gluing" or something ...
And also voiced confidence in the speedy coming of a new era in modern art with an absolute dominance of painting colors on the canvas.
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