Power and Art: a show of force

[OTROK NIKODIM]

Power and Art: a show of force
 
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Schröder knew how to use the art of man comes to power, yearn for greatness, and comes to him through art. But art - not the jack. It can not be crushed. They can simply enjoy. It is known in the past kings, but forgot our contemporaries.

In Berlin, the German Historical Museum held an exhibition. It was called "Pictures of power. Art as a strategy of domination" and is a richly illustrated historical survey of centuries-old relations of power and art. Is no secret that the government uses art as a jack to improve its image. Art strengthens, reinforces the impact oblagorazhivat and exalts, if you know how to use it.

Alternated fashion and preference disappeared monarchy collapsed empire, but the powerful do not forget that art can do wonders. In Germany after the Second World first thing began to look for new symbols of statehood. In the East, instilled in Socialist Realism. In the West, chose abstract art. Contemporary avant-garde became a bridge to the free world, and the first on it went businessmen.

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The head of "Deutsche Bank" Says Director of the German Historical Museum, Hans Ottomeyer (Hans Ottomeyer): "In other countries, like France, the president poses for photographers on the background of bookshelves. The U.S. president - for desk on the background of open windows and an American flag. tradition of German politicians to pose against the backdrop of contemporary art opened in Frankfurt, where after the war, the bankers to buy contemporary art for its "floor authority". In Berlin this fashion has brought Schroeder. After him sit on a background of contemporary Arts in German politics became the norm. "

Gerhard Schroeder (Gerhard Schröder) was the first German politician of modern times, who used all the possibilities of modern art to strengthen their positions. Seemed prophetic of his decision to hang in his office over the desk now Georg Baselitz (Georg Baselitz), featuring an eagle.

Predatory bird opens its beak, feathers bristle and ... falling upside down. What subtext? What an irony! The picture can be deployed to 180 degrees, and then rapid decline will turn into a dizzying rise. Is not it bends career Schröder himself, who from the Office of the Chancellor smartly jumped in Gazprom? His successor, Angela Merkel (Angela Merkel) hung in the place was a portrait of Konrad Adenauer in pastel colors. Not the slightest hint of irony!

"Schroeder felt his power of this provocation", - convinced Wolfgang Ullrich (Wolfgang Ullrich), the exhibition curator and author of the axiomatic work on how politicians and entrepreneurs use art instead of the missing autocracy.

Bildunterschrift: Chancellor Angela Merkel at his desk
By pirouettes Schroeder can be treated differently, but (unlike Guido Westerwelle (Guido Westerwelle), former Chancellor held forth on art as the "fairest of the daughters of liberty." He just hung on the wall of the diving eagle sat in a chair and invited photographers. And the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and collector of contemporary German painting invites photographers so that they took him off at a time when the famous German artist Norbert Bisky (Norbert Bisky) hung his paintings in his office. Artist as a designer?

So abuse the power of art, or not? Director of the German Historical Museum, Hans Ottomeyer stresses: "Do not abuse, but simply uses. Most of the works in the exhibition was not made to order, and bought on the art market. But there are artists who are so closely fused with their clients that themselves are beginning to ironic about this or think of himself as court painter.

King of Spain, Charles the Fifth did not hesitate to raise the floor had fallen brush his court painter. And not just because Titian was the most prestigious and expensive "brand" of the time. Royal clients believed that artists also illuminated by the grace of God and are fully entitled to absolute dominance in his world - the world of art. Sometimes this simple truth forget our contemporaries.

Author: Ella Volodina
Editor: Daria Bryantseva

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predatory bird opens its beak, feathers bristle and ... falling upside down.

And Baselitz all upside down.