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An artist's life is a
struggle without stone in heart.
It is a struggle for
the rights of Art in people's consciousness.
Art is unable to be a server or material.
It is also not peculiar to man to be a means. Man is
always the purpose.
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Contents:
1. The Artists' Statemant
2. About Post-symbolism Art (in the form of dialogue)
3. Symbol and Myth (on example of Ophelia's and Hamlet's love)
4. The Artists’ Declaration (The Era of a New Renaissance is Coming)
5. Man's Search for Meaning. The Role of Art
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ABOUT POST-SYMBOLISM ART in the form of dialogue
Art pins people's hopes for a planet
harmony not less than other ways of human search. Artists find themselves
standing before a gulf, which has bewildered philosophers and scientists,
theologians and theosophists. From this point of view one can understand the
prophecy of Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Beauty will save the World".
REPLY. I guess that depends on which scientists and
philosophers you are talking about. My own views of those subjects get along
quite nicely
This point of
view doesn’t make matter to divide art into types, schools, and styles.
REPLY. I
think that there are all kinds of good reasons to identify schools, types, and
styles. If you see something new you can understand the elements of it by
saying that this school uses that technique all the time, but for different
reasons, or that style has such and such a problem which in this case isn't a
problem, or is made worse by some factor or other. Whether you like it or not,
there are patterns of methods and styles and understanding them requires
generalization and abstracting them away from the specific works.
REPLY TO THE REPLY. I think that it is impossible to be
style-less in art. Style is a language of art, but wordbook is not a poem. The
classifications in art occasionally can change art, as the trees do not let us
conceive the forest. At present some arts and art-criticisms are only
classifying the schools and terms, but making nobody Free. Yet a bit cannot
content man, either an ancient or contemporary one.
The masterpieces of non-applied type
were created by the old masters in limited frames of their workshops; likewise
the poets transformed common speech into poems. The artists of modern times
have used the means of any schools, and the unknown original ways. But the hand
and the mind are always recognized in each master's work, and it is not called
a style. It is impossible to say: the Rembrandt-stile, the Picasso-style, such
as impossible to say about any man: "He (She) has lived and died in the
style of…"
Symbolism Art, grown on the basis of romantic world-vision, did not
create either schools or styles. Moreover all, arisen from it, were inevitably
moving away from it, ceasing to be Symbolism in the sense and the meaning, as
for example Art Nouveau style.
A symbol is not just a thing among things. Due to its universality, it
is similar to man. Man comprise the whole World, stays the measure of All. Man,
being open to all, is coming to All completely.
Art is unable to be a server or material. Art contrasts with nonentity
only. It is also not peculiar to man to be a means. Man is always the purpose.
REPLY. I think
that is transparently false. Art can serve a wide variety of purposes. It can
educate, enlighten, it can propagandize, excite, pacify, or revolt.
REPLY TO THE REPLY. Art does not serve; many
purposes are getting by the way. Art can be compared with man, and then it is
possible to say that a purpose of art is a man always. When this aspect exists,
art remains art. But that one, what has been defined by Bertram Russell as a mass culture, is not art from this
point of view.
2001
Fyodor Dostoyevsky said,
"Beauty will save the world". Poet Iosif Brodsky reworded him in his
Nobel Lecture. Brodskiy added, "Probably it is impossible to save the world
already, but to save the separate man is always possible".
But, the world consists of people.
And, each person in the world has awakened from the terrible dream of the
twentieth century. The means of Art and Culture, but not the ill stamps of politics
and a mass culture can reach
happiness and a human dignity. Art is humanism.
The era of a New Renaissance is
coming.
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The twentieth century was a century
of a mass culture. That was the modern
myth about an average man, who has an
average life and needed a mass culture
only.
It was possible to meet the average
men among the foolish political gamesters with their primitive ideology, which
enforced people to live in the totalitarian worlds, and among the ignorant
art-dealers as well, which were doing the
mass culture war against
humanity.
People win in the war of banality
against them.
Man doesn't want to be an average man any more.
People don’t need the foolish
ideology and the ignorant art-myths.
People need a humane life and the
authentic art.
Man doesn't want to be a means any
more.
Man is always the purpose.
2000
THE ARTISTS' STATEMENT
Now is the time to talk about the destiny of Art
globally. Andre Malraux said concerning our time: " The 21st century will
be spiritual, or it will be nothing". In contemporary society, when
spiritual vacuum can be filled up by horror, one can understand the prophecy of
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "Beauty will save the World".
People are tired of politics and business, because a Human Being is not a
machine or robot feeding his/her own physical existence only. People must have
an alternative. What should be giving us a real feeling of life? On what terms
do society and communication function? Art is the ONLY alternative because of
its unlimited capacity to investigate deeply an understanding of what a Man
should be.
Art appears in communication between artists and the world. If Art could be
widely related to People, then much of inspiration would be born. A better
understanding of the role of Art could help in the contemporary world.
The existing art market is mostly not responsible for the destiny of Art. Art
is considered just another commodity or product. The talented artists, who have
devoted their lives to art completely, are sometimes unable to earn a living by
their professional work. The lives of many true artists are impossible. Besides
the taxes equal to the taxes for traders, they must pay the huge percentage to
the local galleries, which are not always able to bring Art to people widely
and perfectly.
It is necessary to create an art market where collectors and artists will reach
the right balance. That can be accomplished but everyone responding for the
destiny of art needs to put out forth some effort.
The independent artists' Society (INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS geocities
com/artsociety_isa ) proposes to use the existing resources supporting the
non-profit cultural organizations all over the world for the art-shows. The ISA
centers in different countries do not sell art; they only organize the art
exhibitions. But artists may sell their art at those exhibitions themselves. These
way artists make direct contact with collectors and pay taxes only.
Direct contact between artists and collectors is very important. Art is for
people always; art is born from a love for people, for the world, for life. And
everybody understands that the Art in his or her home is seen every day by his
or her children and is a large part of their education. The ISA exhibitions
will not only be shops, but public meeting places. And artists will fully
demonstrate their talents, when they will be in direct contact with people. Some
from art business don't respect, don't know, and don't understand people's
needs. But there has always been a demand for inspirited, creative and vital
art.
The Era of New Renaissance is coming! The improved art market will dispel the
myth that talented artists become famous only after death. Then why, for
example, did Picasso or Giorgione have a normal art life? Giorgione fortunately
had a market in his country; Picasso had created it by himself all over the
world. All contemporary Van Goghs will find brothers among the people.
An artists' life is a straggle without stone in heart. It is a straggle for the
rights of Art in people's consciousness. Art is unable to be a server or
material. It is also not peculiar to man to be a means. Man is always the
purpose.
Each national culture and each religion has a deep inner beauty. Beauty truly
unites all people by the best of human heart and soul, by love and joy. Beauty
will save the world.
2004
SYMBOL AND MYTH (on example of Ophelia's and Hamlet's love)
We have only allegory, metaphor, symbol, and myth - by
what we are able to express something. Now, on the sill of millenniums, we have
to remember a symbol, we return to the things, which are mentally and
emotionally closed to all of us. That can be for example a light or darkness,
happiness or sorrow. We can't make the exact definitions of symbol and myth,
because we are inside of our expression. But maybe Myth is a Life of Divine,
and Symbol is how people are able to understand a Life of Divine. For example a
story of Ophelia and Hamlet. They were loving each other, so all, what they
were doing, were a background of them love, without what them love could be
impossible. But Love is Myth, and we unable to know what that certainly is, as
Hamlet and Ophelia too. But, they always still know a Love, as each of us too. Each
of us has touched it by any way, so each of us is Divining.
Sometimes our lives look like a rush moving to nonentity, and all of us are
delicate to each other – each of us knows that Ophelia is dead, and Hamlet’s
win is formal only. But Love is always alive.
2004
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING. THE ROLE OF ART
When ancient Aesopus had a choice between slavery and death, he said,
"Please show me the gulf for the freedom people". That was a suicide
formally, but due to Aesopus we can understand what Freedom is. Socratic
situation was the same - Socrates could avoid a poison by refusing his
teaching.
Viktor Frankl in "Man's Search for Meaning" has defined a human
essentiality. We do not feel that Aesopus, Socrates, a fortiori Jesus could be
wrong in their choice. Meaning is basic to man. Here is a difference between
man and nature. But now we have a tendency to be going back to the spiritual
emptiness like the monkeys, which only have been trained to count money. Nobody
is contented with it. We all are searching for meaning.
Art has important role in the contemporary human search.
The development of human ideas is a slow process, which could be compared with
the long time of human history. But every man need lively to take part in it by
his/her own life and destiny - it is a human necessity to be heuristic.
But why are we pessimistic sometimes? If we are not happy - that means we are
deceived by some kind of totalitarism. Totalitarian ideas are those ones, which
haven’t inner resources for a development. They are old as the world; they are
taking new clothes only. They are special nowadays - it could be called a
totalitarism of banality. Pessimism and spiritual emptiness are the results of
totalitarian banality.
The general human notions as freedom, meaning, love, life, death - which are in
the coordination with personal freedom - are at stake. People feel that they
have no possibility of human realisation. The modern totalitarism could be
understood as the total domination of a mass-culture; banality in the social
and individual life. This kind of totalitarism, as all of them, makes people
crazy. The different variations of totalitarism in history were connected with
the wars on the territories of its location, but an infection of totalitarism
has not been diffused over the whole world before. The spiritual vacuum can be
filled up by horror, which has already stepped from movies into real life by
one of its legs.
The communications on the base of Art and Culture make us more open and happy. The
circle of viewers, with whom Art and Culture can engage in the productive
intellectual and emotional relationships, can be expanded for all of us.
An authentic human life can be returned back to people by the means of Art and
Culture. Beauty will save the world.
2002