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Ran into an interesting interview: The victory over the art market
As marketers take precedence over the creators
Andrei Konchalovsky
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The digitized art
Technical progress and the aesthetic trend of postmodernism, which has gained a strong position to the XXI century have significantly changed the very nature of creativity. Much has become so easy and accessible, that cinema today can shoot any. Take a video camera - she is now a small, digital, she puts the focus itself - the exposure - and-shoot. Then it can be mounted on the computer and put it to music. There will be movies. It was as easy as writing popular music.
Music, which is called pop music today is not composed by the composer, and a computer - so-called sequencers. The computer gives the necessary harmony, and composing it can be, not knowing and musical alphabet. The so-called musicians today can bring a ready-made soundtrack, but do not know how to write music on sheet music rulers.
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Mastery - a fundamental concept. From far away layers of history came to our tradition and craft, a profession passed down from generation to generation, to absorb with mother's milk. So far, China's doctor, who himself appreciates, is proud to count up to ten previous generations of doctors. As the myth of Troy, brought to the masterpiece of Homer, passed down from century to century, so skills are passed on bone carvers in China, the art khokhloma painting, Dymkovo toys. In schools, Titian, Veronese, to become an artist, I had to learn all my life. These people have always been valued by its weight in gold - jewelers, poets, cartographers. They were taken captive into slavery, but never killed, they created the perfect conditions, so that they can create. So you can see the Persian motifs in Egyptian pyramid, Arab patterns in European art. These artists created the piece, a unique quality product, he could imitate and grow themselves, in imitation. Question of the number had never been, just the opposite: every lord, duke or Dad wanted to have something not found anywhere else in the world.
The bourgeoisie and the liberalization of Western countries have brought new challenges. In place of the uniqueness of it is mass demand, accessibility of the product. In the last century arose the art of marketing, but today the term "pop culture" is associated with a world of vast numbers. Today, the value of art can be viewed only in terms of its potential sale. And if the product is created illiterate, but shrewd businessman, and his purchase, this product can be considered art. This makes the disappearance of most needs in culture, the professionalism of the artist and contributes lyubitelschiny.
Francois Mauriac said that the XX century is the century of football, and was mistaken for a hundred years
In movies and music poured amateurs. Sometimes with success. The same can be said about the visual arts, TV and theater. This can be explained not only technical availability, but also the trend of postmodernism, deliberately dismembered continuity with the traditions of world culture. This gap has allowed the artist to get rid of what is called "cultural association". Namely, cultural association and gives an artistic image of multi-dimensionality and depth. But where necessary technical expertise, which require laborious training, amateurs can not. In architecture, without the knowledge to do nothing - the building collapse. In ballet, sports, the circus, the opera is necessary to study engineering profession.
If we consider contemporary commercial cinema in terms of art, there can be seen in something close, but in many respects and different process. Director's chair occupied the young people who came from advertising and MTV. Of course, they know the alphabet and techniques, but the language, content - that what appears verve - they have an amorphous mess - to distinguish one film from the director of another is virtually impossible. At present the set and everything is done very well: high professionals of different specialties, in principle, can make a film without a director. Sexennial baby enough to learn the word "motor" and "stop" - and the film will be ready. Performers will play, the operator would remove the sound will record, editor mounts.
All this I can also be applied to a very large American directors. Can you call the individual language to Spielberg? It is not his language. It is the language of his raskadrovschika. It is the language of its editor. I venture to suggest that Spielberg is not their language. More precisely, it is perhaps only in one scene - "Saving Private Ryan", but is a language not his, but the talented Polish operator Janusz Kaminski. Together they took some tapes, including "Schindler's List. But when Spielberg went back to the other operators, he returned to the storyboard. And it became clear that this statement was made by his tongue, and not himself. In Spielberg's no language, it is sufficiently connected mumbles all the words for him and for him by others.
I think today's language arts at a standstill - for the deadlock in the content.
Price marinated fish
What happened to human values, which were raised many generations, including ours?
Before the Internet and media, beginning with Moses and Christ and ending with Chaliapin, Kryuchkov, or Solzhenitsyn, values evolved over the centuries. They went nurturing century. They were created generations of creators, poets, artists, thinkers. They were approved in the ordinary consciousness is like the universal values inherent in civilization in general. This gradation of their creation and growing into life and makes them resistant.
Today, the value can be created by the order of solvent corporation or individual. Those who are interested in their distribution, expects that the political or material dividends and pays for their future benefits. That is now the value is not produced within the society - they are introduced into it from outside. Today can read the values of tolerance, tomorrow - the uncompromising, the day after tomorrow - smug hedonism. Accordingly, will be promoted and image shapes, that embody these values. Today - one person, tomorrow - the other, and the day after they both forget to extol the third.
Marketing has become the main driving force of civilization, because the power of marketing that product quality is less important than the quality of its advertising - in fact the result is important, as measured by profits.
Here is a curious example. How, in your opinion, how much can be very large pickled fish? In 1991 a young English artist Adrian Hirst bought for 6000 pounds of big shark, marinate it and moved to England. He placed a dead fish in the aquarium and, calling it very hard - that kind of "thought of death, seemingly unattainable, proposed agency Saatchi. The agency bought the fish for 50 000 pounds. Began seriously thought-out marketing campaign called "Young England" developing trend, announced by the supreme achievement of modern art. You can imagine how much money was spent on marketing this trend, because soon appeared pickled calf, then a pig, etc. And in January 2005, pickled fish was sold to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for 14 million dollars, and all England sigh, that masterpiece of British art floats over the ocean!
It is hard not to make a very sad conclusions about the prospects for the development of Western civilization.
Adoration of the toilet
Literature, cinema, music, painting, following the laws of postmodernism, deliberately mixed high and low: everything is kitsch. The most disturbing - the younger generation sees this as a unique art. The fact that some contemptuously referred to as "pop art", for these children in fact - "art". For them, Andy Warhol - is a large, world famous painter, his picture sold for $ 15 million. Looking at it now, they are convinced that this is art. Even Pushkin Museum with reverence exhibited Warhol Intermedia Raphael and Giotto! And this trend is deliberately cultivated by critics and art dealers.
In December last year, the Daily Telegraph to name the five most important works of world art, created in the twentieth century. To define them, was drafted and sent out five hundred critics, artists, gallery owner and art historians list of five hundred masterpieces. Each was asked to arrange the works in order of importance. "Marilyn Monroe" by Andy Warhol took their estimates of third place, behind only "girls Avignon" by Pablo Picasso and "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp, it appeared to everyone's embarrassment, in the first place. "Fountain" - a standard porcelain urinal, which the artist has put something like a signature and exhibited in 1917 at an art exhibition. Think about it: five hundred professional experts consider most important in the art of great age that basically has no relation to art, to the outrageous and aesthetic hooliganism! What a total fear of appearing backward retrograde!
And remember, a Velazquez?
Until the mid-twentieth century art was linked with the tradition - and it is primarily cultural associations. I remember how my grandfather, Pyotr Petrovich, when he wrote something, said to his son Misha: "Do you remember a Velazquez?" Do you remember Titian? " At this point he could write a cubist still life or realistic lilac. Creativity estimated wealth of associations. The great modernist Francis Bacon, his life was inspired by Velázquez. The same applies to directors. Film directors have always aroused great cultural associations. The influence of the great continuity was the key, the key to development.
Forty years ago, all students VGIK knew Fellini, Kurosawa, Bergman ... Now these giants left in the past. Young directors and Chekhov is not really read.
Before, I had hoped that TV, video tapes create a kind of enclave for asylum, thinking people. But in order to create such an enclave, you need these people to offer samples, which should be equal. But what actually happened? You come to the Video Store: the shelves are the names of hits, released over the past three years, some longer-standing films of a series of James Bond or Indiana Jones - the classic absent. Buy a great movie it is very difficult - there is no demand for them. There is no demand, because they do not know they existed! Current direction like in the movies and in theater with a cultural association parted like a prejudice. It is inspired by the fact that yesterday was a success with critics. Whether Tarantino or someone even more trendy. Since the basis of these principles militant rejection of tradition and approval of the novelty at any cost, the truth was replaced by the search for "Comedy". Make it so that it was "cool. This is a medical fact: cultural association of leaves of European art.
To be and to appear
While human values are immutable, almost always has been, and deserved the glory of the Creator - it was not made with hands, created generations, famed put above the others. You can call it piety. Out of reverence for other ambitious artistic personalities grew the desire to imitate and to reach the top. It was clear to go. Any young man knew Tolstoy, Chekhov, Solzhenitsyn as a great, worthy of imitation. The same is true in the cinema: we wanted to vertices, clearly defined, deservedly become established in the art.
The young artist - like a swimmer in the ocean. Where to swim? If you do not see the ground at night, that is a beacon. The direction is clear. Today the glory of creating a manipulative, with the help of the media. It costs money. Often, the glory of simply false. A young man who dreams of glory in the art, feels like a swimmer in the night: on the horizon is full of misleading lights, and where to swim, do not know ...
Francois Mauriac said that the twentieth century is the century of football, and was mistaken for a hundred years. It is now time football, but not movies. Reason to disgust is simple - a lot of money there. Football star gets a lot more movie stars. For football pay forty million dollars - no movie star does not go for that price. I was very scared, what language I express myself. Imagine how difficult it is to strike the ball with such a burden of responsibility.
But there is another dimension of modern fame. Today, people in bringing world-wide fame, not necessarily respected him more jealous, and sometimes secretly despise: "It is as mediocre as I do, but he had the money to buy fame. Undeserved fame quickly dies. And since I know that a director (or, say, the "untwisted" the singer) is no better than me, and I know which way he got the glory, could not help think: I could just as well. The need to improve in their skill is replaced by the need to find a marketing manager. Seems today is more important than being.
Ten minutes of Tchaikovsky
American philosopher and sociologist, Buchanan has written a serious work entitled "The Death of the West." He gives enough arguments to prove that the West is moving towards an inevitable crash - from all points of view: the geo-political and demographic, in terms of recourse to the erosion of spiritual values, and to violate the continuity of new generations of humanistic experience of Europe. Russia has developed on the periphery of the great European civilization and its culture only with great reserve can be called Western. Russia has not passed the Reformation, the Renaissance, four hundred years of civil society and European democracy, but in an age of total information and globalization, and burning slowly, she seeks to understand the European experience as an external student, not realizing that this outstanding example is old and can not be a model. Enough to get acquainted with the predictions of impending global crises - climate and energy to understand: the industrial powers of Europe will inevitably face a dramatic upheaval, if not collapse, its fundamental social principles and structures. Russia has a chance not to be dragged into this maelstrom: huge space, continental, ie rather unfortunate, but a stable climate, enormous natural wealth. And that much - fortunately, the "laggards" culture in Russia has not developed the principle of "time - the money" refers to the time with less rationality, and preserving a space for contemplation, which, according to the observations of psychologists, so it is necessary for the harmonious development of man ... So whether you want to Russia, rejecting all this, ran after the West?
The rate of irreversible processes, increases exponentially. Evidence of this acceleration is the acceleration of political events, but the result - that do not have time for the events of human memory is getting shorter. If the Neolithic took a million years, the development of agriculture require 10 000 years, the Middle Ages - a thousand, Renaissance - five hundred, then the development of modern technologies abided by almost half a century, and during these years has radically changed the human perception. If changes so rapidly, the memory and the human remains unclaimed. Today's generation does not know, I'm not talking about Bach - even recent pop-music stars like Ella Fitzgerald or Louis Armstrong. How can they know that was black caviar, if tastier than McDonald's, it is not necessary!
The famous Indian writer, who lives in England, a Nobel laureate VS Naipaul recently wrote: "Literature is dead, and on this occasion much regret in the world is - it simply is not needed. People do not experience feelings of loss - they just lost the need for literature. In fact, it is the same as what I have said about the movie. One can only sympathize with the Western man, almost to the end of desiccated consumption, corrupt opportunity to meet their immediate needs of the surface and which are not time trying to concentrate. Tchaikovsky Symphony to listen for ten or twenty minutes before you begin to dive into it. To read Dostoevsky or Solzhenitsyn, a victim need - time. Need to focus intensely on something intently, think about it - only then begins empathy for deeper level. Contemplation - What is needed for the perception of works of art, for the perception of pop music immersion is not necessary. The same happens with the literature - now it does not require immersion. In order to read most of the modern world literature, no need to sacrifice time. You read the same as listening to music in the elevator - it currently has, and you think about something else. Mankind has been taught to perceive art at the most superficial level. The consciousness of the reader and the viewer can run on its surface, like a water spider on the surface of the water - that's enough. Let us not forget that the very first novel - the Bible, demanding the greatest concentration.
The sun rises from the East?
Already written nemerenoe number of works on the information shock experienced by our civilization. Internet has changed the history of mankind. The abundance of information, plus its absolute accessibility do not help, as dreamed 40 years ago, but, strangely enough, prevent the deepening of our knowledge about the world. The more information - the less we know. We are unable to make any selection. It is easy to drown in the cesspool undiscriminated information, in cracking down on you precipitate certainly not what you need. And it can not act on the psyche. Wisely said the great connoisseur of music Pasternak: "The best of what I heard - it is silence." Today in the informative field of endless wail. I think that in the future will be a privilege of the rich information and all the other quiet and lack of computers. Computers, they will leave to their employees.
I do not think such a pessimistic view of things, though sometimes I want to wishful thinking. But I am confident that humanity is not extinct, but survives. Only here the conditions under which it survives, is very unfavorable for the development of individuality. However, adverse conditions even more useful than favorable, as the force to exert all ability to survive. When a man teaches everything on a silver platter - TV, cheap food, comfortable atmosphere, any information - it ceases to perceive the value of things. Consumption of an immense amount of information does not increase erudition. You can know all sorts of expensive wines, keep up on all the premiere, dressed in the best boutiques, but do not improve their quality of life. Quality of life, in fact, depends only on the ability to think and understand your personal real role and a real place in the lives of others ... A philosophy and practice of reality persuade you not to speculate as to consume, "take everything from life! It's sad - but it may be, indeed Western culture, according to Spengler, and now Buchanan, rolled up?
I think that this situation exists primarily for the West. And this is not the whole world. Continue to maintain its tradition of China, India, Japan, the Middle East. The great state of ancient civilizations - Hindu, Muslim, Confucian - have not lost their values, melted over the centuries. They too slowly abandoning their traditions and furiously, sometimes too fiercely resisted the introduction of Western values. Therefore, in today's festivals take prizes Zhang Yimou's Chinese or Iranian Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
And if we talk about the culture of the world, then surely there is hope that mankind will continue and the desire and ability to establish and discovery of art, literature and the cinema, which I always considered art.
Konchalovsky, let him speak for the film. In all of the other iso-art has value and time peels everything superficial and unreal, and clearly puts all of the prices.
Pavel, but you know how to read? If you know how, read the above article completely. Of course, do not want to wind up, but reading the arguments of doldonov as you involuntarily start. You, meanwhile, in the presentation of his contemporaries - a painter. You are doing something, covering canvases with paint, thinking that it will someday be interesting. This may amuse ... A A. Konchalovsky - a name in the history of world art. You certainly do not understand your illiterate commissar thinking that such education and noble kind. You do not understand what the aristocratic upbringing.
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Konchalovsky let him speak for the film. In all of the other iso-art has value and time peels everything superficial and unreal, and clearly puts all of the prices.
In your hard-representation in all the stories are placed only on prices. And history, in fact, everything and everyone is setting the record straight. And you, with your hard-I'm sure there's no place close to Surikov, Konchalovsky, Mikhalkov ... Dreaming of a green tinsel money, but do not talk about art.
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Konchalovsky ordinary director in cinema, worked in Hollywood, to work, but it does not get into povod.Ne Busya.: D: D: D
22.06.2009, 15:24
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