SiberianAt one time, Eugene Delacroix warned that you should not mix more than three colors at once. The color address is lost, it is easy to lose the essence of the goal for which everything was started.
The art of Lucian Freud is, of course, humanistic art: in the center of it is a person - human destiny. But this is pessimistic humanism, this is a denial of the role of man in history. Man, according to Freud, is an endangered species, a consumable.
In 1947, Georges Rouault burned 315 of his 700 paintings in the presence of a notary; burned because he did not consider them worthy of the plan.
Salon painting is always a shadow of humanistic art, it is what happens when a personal statement is adapted for the market, for mass production, when the intimate becomes a style.
Fauvist artist Maurice Vlaminck, who collaborated with the occupying (fascist) authorities, published an article against Picasso. He reproached the foreigner Picasso for damaging national French painting in favor of transnational dubious values.
The Moscow school of painting submit the aesthetics of Russia, just as Moscowia occupied the rest of country. At the end of the 19th century, the passions and techniques of the Moscow school spread to all Russian art. A dull gray and brown tone also spread - it's was the color of truth. Reality is gray-brown, and the weather in Russia bad, so painting, if it is true, should be gray-brown. Russian realists worked with this pathos.
In the post-war years, Picasso painted a huge number of replicas of the paintings of his predecessors. It's literally impossible to call it replicas. For example - he draws a replica of Manet's "Breakfast on the Grass", but Manet himself wrote a replica of Giorgione's painting in this picture, and he wrote it, as you know, according to a sketch by Titian, but in general the plot was taken from a Greek vase.
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The late Picasso no longer paints; it no longer fuses colors together, it just coloring objects, it denotes the colors of an object: this is red, this is green. The language of the picture looks naive (somebody tried to interpret its simplicity through a return to the simplicity of the child). However, there is no naivety in this language. To draw like a child does not mean to draw primitively, without knowledge of the subject. This means - to draw in essence.
The slaves of Rome and the serfs of Russia did not have the right to organize their personal lives the way they wanted. The moral image, condemned at the party meetings of the Bolsheviks or fascists, in reality, worried the meetings a little. Many inhuman acts were allowed, but to experience an uncontrollable feeling of love was forbidden.
The love in "Doctor Zhivago" and in Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita", the love of the heroes of Mayakovsky, Hemingway and Orwell, is determined contrary to the directives of the century. Contrary to public morality as well. Love was all the more acute because it was accompanied by the fear of non-existence.
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