Andrei Vasnetsov. Museum-Estate Abramtzevo

[ottenki_serogo]

- Andrei, tell us about their lives.
      - Talking about myself is difficult ...

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I was born in Moscow on February 24, 1924 in the family of Professor of Moscow State University Vladimir Vasnetsov. My mother Vasnetsova Nadezhda Petrovna at the time she graduated from the University for Women and was a teacher. Paternal grandfather was Victor Vasnetsov - famous Russian artist. I had another brother, Yuri, who died in 1941 in the battles on the outskirts of the city of Kalinin.
      - What are the most vivid impression you have left over from childhood?
      - Moscow my early childhood - this is Moscow with cobblestone streets, lanterns, recently reworked into electrical, with cab drivers and cab, with a tram "Anna" ... The biggest attraction for me was the house his grandfather in a quiet Trinity Lane, with its "ancient" wooden architecture, with pictures of fantastic worlds of ancient tales, with its special, long the cooling warm presence of my ancestors lived here. And the Tretyakov Gallery I perceived as the continuation of grandfather's house. But I grew up, began to paint. Once a picture of "The Knight at the Crossroads" motivated by his grandfather. Mikhail Nesterov, who had accidentally saw a good laugh, but laughed approvingly. Later I studied at the Art Studio at Kharitonievsky, where I taught watercolor. Since the "aqua" meaning "water", then we were taught that everything on the worksheet should be distributed. And we have it all flowed and spread over that I almost fell into despair. Probably, since I feel an intuitive aversion to any kind of external devices.
      - It seems that the war broke your art education?
      - After demobilization I joined the faculty of monumental painting at the Moscow Institute of applied and decorative arts, and there he studied with Andrei Dmitrievich Goncharova. Andrew D. instilled in me the consciousness of the need to perfect form, color, volume, space, rhythm. All of these are not very fashionable concept then entered the circle of my worries are not as formal methods, as well as a condition of creating a truly truthful artistic image. I also had the good fortune to learn from A. Deineka. I participated in the youth shows at the Kuznetsk bridge. Works "surgery", "Still Life with a black chicken, and others have a certain resonance, and with an unexpected tinge of scandal for me. Suffice recognized as an architectural painter until the eighties, I felt some apprehension with regard to my easel painting.
      - How do you think of the directions of modern art? We in the West ...
      - A wise man once said that the directions in art - it is a refuge of mediocrity. Действительно, любой “изм”, как его ни назови, поп-арт, сюрреализм, соцреализм и т. д. и т. п., сам по себе не существует. Case in personality, talent, professional integrity of the artist, whose name we identify with this or that direction. A fall in the tail of the queue, run off into a homogeneous crowd, at best - funny and, at worst - tragically, anywhere: We in the West, South, East and North.
      - What is contemporary art is different from that which is "done" the artists of the USSR Union of Artists?
      - From my point of view, nothing or very little. How can the arts over the years completely change in nature? It is impossible. There are many games, speculation, including the "artist of the USSR Union of Artists." Speaking on the merits, it is a change of fashion, manners, etc., that fact of professional state of the art does not change. Of course, freedom of creativity is a necessary condition for the existence of culture, but by itself, this freedom does not guarantee the flourishing of the arts, especially at the beginning of his way "...
      - Do you think that we are in the beginning of the road?
      - Yes, at the beginning of a long journey - the world is not collapsing, the world is shaking because it is located in the road. "
      - Clarify, please, some moments of your "dismissal" from the collapse of the Union of Artists.
      - After the collapse of the USSR Union of Artists of the USSR legally ceased to exist. His successor, SC RSFSR and other republics of efforts were made to establish the International Confederation of Unions of Artists. I am after the dissolution of the USSR Union of Artists, resigned, and the International Confederation of Unions of Artists headed as its president Valentin Sidorov, and let him be God every success in this difficult journey.
      - Do you believe in God, I go to church, if so, in what you think about the ease, so to speak, "blasphemous" art?
      - Certainly, I believe, but a sinner - in the church are rare. By blasphemy am equally negative, wherever it manifested itself - in art, in the home or anywhere else. Which church? In the one that comes on the road. In every church is a grace ...
      - How do you feel about today?
      - Time is time. It exists as a given, but it was like someone or not, at the time, it is not affected. This is not fatalism, just a statement of fact. We live in a complex era, but what it harder for us, his contemporaries, the more interesting it will be for future researchers. For the artist the same time. Do you think they used to be better when we called him, Nikita bad words, excluded from the Union? But we and our art survived it and I hope many more will survive.
      - Andrei, whether art should be the basis of its moral?
      - It's a complicated question. Problems related to ethics of the artist, because he, too, man, but no more. Claims on nravouchitelstvo - intent useless. Never before moralizing pictures do not do society more moral. For example, Greuze, Hogarth, Fedotov - these three artists in different countries tried to improve society, and what happened? But the question of morality in art has another aspect. This attitude of the artist to his sacred craft, the knowledge that the wrong position swab, any professional inaccuracy is a moral violation. It is immoral and a betrayal of art for the sake of commercial success. Remember the "Portrait of Gogol, with astonishing force where it is shown that such a betrayal not only immoral, but ruinous to the Creator.
      - Your attitude to the problem of "exporting" Western values in our country?
      - I understand that this is the so-called "mass culture"? What to do with it? In any case, does not prohibit. Bans are useless here. I think that our entire society will suffer this disease. The only antidote - is the creation of alternative media culture of art. Cultural figures at all a misunderstanding, a commercial failure and even persecution must be firm, but then over time can be achieved with the removal of mass-culture front line.
      - What do you want young artists who adhere to traditional values in art?
      - Wish you every success. But want to clarify: these values must be values, and not something else, cheaper. Relying on the high traditions worthy of respect. But we must not forget that we live in another time and literal, with the surface, without understanding, copying the past can not lead to success. I think it preferable to move forward based on tradition, so to speak progressive conservatism. This is a multi-purpose for art and society.
      - What do you say about the fate of the Museum of VM Vasnetsov in Moscow?
      - In 1948, relatives of Victor Mikhailovich, including myself, donated a house with a plot, with all property, including all located there pictures of Viktor Vasnetsov, the state with the condition of a State House Museum of Vasnetsov. This museum was established in 1954. Currently House Museum as well as museum-apartment Apollinaria Vasnetsov, an artist, brother of Victor Mikhailovich, a subsidiary of the State Tretyakov Gallery, which meets the wishes of donors, both dead and still alive. This form of existence of museums, to my understanding, is the only possible option for their safety ...
      - Andrei, the newspaper "Tomorrow" is not so long ago raised the question of realism. What do you think is realistic.
      - Realism is the reflection of the visible material world, as well as what can be visibly the eye of the artist. This is not a "third eye" and not just the magic of wealth depends on the artist's inner world, whether he sees anything other than a shell of material of people and things, or not. If he sees only the material and begins to draw their hallucinations - are two extremes that have nothing to do with harmony in art. Thus, the realism - is embodied in images harmony between material and spiritual. The concept of "harmony" is impossible without the concept of "hierarchy". When there is no hierarchy of concepts and values, there can be no harmony, there is only chaos and disintegration.
      - Around the newspaper "Tomorrow" is formed circle of close-minded artists. This is mostly young guys. What do you wish for them?
      - At the barricades especially not climb. Do more business, their business. All the rest of the evil ...

[Евгений]

Сообщение от ottenki_serogo

Realism is the reflection of the visible material world, as well as what can be visibly the eye of the artist. This is not a "third eye" and not just the magic of wealth depends on the artist's inner world, whether he sees anything other than a shell of material of people and things, or not. If he sees only the material and begins to draw their hallucinations - are two extremes that have nothing to do with harmony in art. Thus, the realism - is embodied in images harmony between material and spiritual. The concept of "harmony" is impossible without the concept of "hierarchy". When there is no hierarchy of concepts and values, there can be no harmony, there is only chaos and disintegration.

Good words.
ottenki_serogo, Andrei Vladimirovich excellent painting, evident at once-talent.
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[ottenki_serogo]

Eugene, I love Konchalovsky, but hard for his works have in relation to Vasnetsov.
  Somehow this is not very audible names Andronov, Nikonov, Vasnetsov, and yet achieve them seriously, while the direction is definitely Russian.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от ottenki_serogo

One is not very audible names Andronov, Nikonov, Vasnetsov,

They "hang" at the Tretyakov Gallery in Russian yes. Classic "severe style". Their no one forgets, I think.

[ottenki_serogo]

Exhibition vector shifted to the international "kontemporari" and called artists, not the end in the 60's. There may come a time permutation accents. Weaken the commercial component and will need to build on their masters.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

ottenki_serogo, the vector is shifted so only if is concerned with a sufficiently large period. In their century of changes of how much was it?
Exhibitions great masters vanity can not tolerate. But money demands. All now, I think, ustakanitsya, many turnips again pocheshut yes and perestanovyat accents, "You're right.