Genius artist A. Zverev and his poems

How many worlds are there on Earth? As many as there are people. Because everyone creates their own world. How does this happen? From childhood, we are inexorably drawn towards fantasy, fairy tales. To experience this life in its entirety. The world seems not only boring, but unincarnated. And when we allow ourselves to create, a new world appears.

What does the experience of the artist teach us? First, draw if you feel like drawing! If this is your way of expressing what you care about. Second - depict your life, tell with a line, color, remember the details, try to convey the entire "theater of your memory." Third - if there is no album and brushes, take a simple notebook, a set of children's pencils, a ballpoint pen, and finally - go.

Our life is a work of art. Even if we don't write or draw, we still create.

Back in the book

If you understand that life is creativity, that every moment is illuminated by the energy of creation, then the realization of this will lead to the awakening of your talent, and then genius. As once in childhood, everything will be possible - and draw, and sing, and dance, create your own world, everything was then possible - even fly!

This touching good book will help to find and develop your creative "I". From it you will learn:

• how to create art projects
• what is a treasure chest
• about the intricacies of caricature drawing
• how to keep dragons in a painting
• lettering and calligraphy tips
• why is the "black square" so expensive
• who are the dabloids who live in the trunk of an elephant and secret life divers
• about painting with wind

…340 pages of inspiration, metaphors, stories that speak to your inner artist.

Don't be afraid of your talent. Discover your unique "I" and believe in yourself! One fine day, your worlds will gain independence and, like rainbow bubbles, will fly over the earth and begin to live their own lives.

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Adolphe-William Bouguereau (Bouguereau)(1825-1905) - one of the most talented French artists 19th century largest representative salon academism, who wrote more than 800 paintings. But it so happened that his name and ingenious artistic heritage were subjected to the most severe criticism and were forgotten for almost a century.

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The giftedness of the future artist was fully manifested in primary school: all his notebooks were literally painted with drawings and various sketches. But due to financial problems in the family, very young William was placed in the care of 27-year-old uncle Yuzhen, who instilled young talent interest in philosophy, literature, mythology and religion.

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Soon the dream came true, and William Bouguereau became one of the best students of this school. In an effort to learn more about your future profession, he takes courses in the history of costume, studies archeology and takes part in anatomical autopsies.

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And when the painter returned to Paris, his popularity knew no bounds.
Bouguereau worked tirelessly on his creations. He came to his workshop early in the morning, and left home after midnight. Like all great artists, he was characterized by constant dissatisfaction with himself and an irrepressible desire for perfection. For this, contemporaries gave him the nickname "Sisyphus of the 19th century."

And the talented painter was compared with Rembrandt. They said that "Rembrandt captured the soul of old age, while Bouguereau captured the soul of youth." Perfect knowledge of anatomy human body, scrupulous detailing, surprisingly selected colors - all this made the canvases of William Bouguereau unusually realistic.

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And in order to somehow forget about the grievous loss, the artist devoted himself entirely to work. He painted portraits and paintings on historical, mythological, biblical and allegorical subjects, where nudity prevailed. female bodies and idleness, which caused discontent among many.

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But Bouguereau continued to write in his own style, and when new fashionable trends and trends began to rapidly pour into art, he did not accept them and opposed them with all his work.

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The death of his son completely crippled the health of the master. And the depressed mood, the accumulated fatigue, the immense addiction to alcohol and smoking had a detrimental effect on his heart. And at the age of 79, the brilliant painter died.

Oblivion and triumphant return

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For almost a century, his name and artistic heritage were forgotten, and only in critical literature could one find a negative mention of William Bouguereau as a painter of the nude genre. His paintings, sent to the storerooms of museums, all these years were kept in damp basements and in attics.

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In 1984, with the support of the Montreal Museum fine arts in Paris, the first retrospective exhibition of a brilliant painter was organized.
With great difficulty, its organizers managed to collect and bring into a presentable form the legacy of William Bouguereau. Many creations had to be restored, since almost a century had passed, and the premises in which they were stored did not at all correspond to special storage facilities.

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At the first auction sales in 1977, the cost of paintings by William Bouguereau did not exceed 10 thousand dollars, but already in 1999, only one canvas"Амур и Психея" было продано на аукционе Christie’s за 1,76 миллиона долларов. Ну а к 2005 году стоимость его работ превысила отметку в 23 миллиона долларов. Это было воистину триумфальным возвращением гениального художника.!}

They said that he played the role of a city madman. I played in order to survive and not fall under the rink of repression. He did not sell his works during his lifetime, he gave them to children and said that he wrote for the future viewer.

The artist developed his own original style of painting, sometimes referred to as "fantastic expressionism". Now his paintings are valued at - 15,000-26,000 dollars.

Like a fakir, a magician and a magician, he could easily create a real miracle out of ordinary things. His scenery for performances in the theater. Abai in Alma-Ata turned an ordinary local performance into an unusually bright show, and the audience was always looking forward to the appearance of his new works. His whole life is a theater, and the artist generously decorated it with all the means available to his mind.

Without this person, it is difficult to imagine Alma-Ata in the 40-60s. Walking around the city in strange, ridiculous outfits, he was an integral part of the capital. ingenious artist or city crazy? The famous Alma-Ata resident Sergey Kalmykov was a controversial and controversial figure. Nevertheless, it is his paintings that now adorn the museums of many cities.

They got used to Kalmykov - to his home-made trousers with multi-colored trousers, to his scarlet beret, to his fantastic jacket with empty tin cans tied to it, jingling when walking. Over time, it has become a unique part of the Almaty city landscape, like a hummingbird in the Siberian taiga. He called himself, not without irony, "the last avant-garde artist of the first call" ... after all, he really turned out to be almost the only representative of a brilliant culture Silver Age miraculously survived until the Khrushchev thaw.

1896, family. Signature on the back: “My dad, mom, Lelya, Shura! Vanya and I, the smallest. I remember when we were filmed. Vanya and I were in red silk shirts. Shura is a high school student!

Sergei Ivanovich Kalmykov was born in 1891 in Samarkand. Soon his family moved to Orenburg, where Seryozha Kalmykov studied at the gymnasium, then at the school of painting, sculpture and architecture. In his youth, he was a reserved, uncommunicative person. In 1910, he left for St. Petersburg and for 4 years attended the school of V.N. Zvantseva, where such famous artists like Dobuzhinsky, Petrov-Vodkin, Bakst.

It was then that a twenty-year-old youth created amazing picture"Bathing the Red Horses" Petrov-Vodkin highly appreciated the work of the student, saying about him: "he is like a young Japanese who has just learned to draw."

A year later, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin himself painted his famous Red Horse, which became a symbol of the Russian avant-garde. On this occasion, Kalmykov recalled: “Looking like a Japanese yellow boy who sits on a red horse is me. But my legs are not that short. This Petrov-Vodkin wrote from a lower angle. My legs will be longer."

Returning to Orenburg, Kalmykov worked hard, after October revolution became one of the most active Orenburg artists. He participated in the design of revolutionary holidays, public buildings, lectured. His paintings, drawings and sculptures attracted the attention of the public. In the 1920s, Kalmykov took part in the artistic design of the performances of the Orenburg theater and circus, in the development of sketches theatrical costumes and posters. At that time, he traveled a lot with the Middle Volga Mobile Opera as main artist, at the same time Kalmykov decided as a decorator and decided to tie his creative life with the theatre.

three Graces

In 1935, Kalmykov was invited to Kazakhstan to work in the newly created musical theater(now GATOB named after Abai). Here he independently designed the operas Aida, Prince Igor, Faust, Floria Tosca and others.

“Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” of October 30, 1935 wrote about the play “Prince Igor”: “The artists Kalmykov and Mikheev successfully resolved the design of the stage, deservedly causing applause from the audience. Written in pleasant colors, with a great sense of proportion, scenery that did not clutter up the scenes as usual, successful costumes - indicate that the artists carefully studied the era and skillfully used the available material. In Alma-Ata, he draws a lot, writes, but does not exhibit, is not published, does not sell his works.

The art center is currently in my head- wrote the artist.

In 1936, Sergei Ivanovich became a member of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan. In parallel with his work in the theater, Kalmykov also led an independent artistic work drawing, painting and engraving. He took part in almost all the union's art exhibitions. In 1946 he left work for health reasons. In 1952 he returned to the theater and worked as a decorator.

self-portrait

This is how the writer Yuri Dombrovsky described his first meeting with the artist: “... and then I saw the artist at the easel. I've heard about this guy before. A month ago, he filed an explanation with the police (neighbors complained) and signed as follows: “Genius of the 1st rank of the Earth and the Galaxy, decorator, artist-performer of the Opera and Ballet Theater. Abai SERGEY IVANOVICH KALMYKOV.<…>

He was also dressed not for people, but for the Galaxy. On his head lay a flat and some kind of impetuous beret, and on his thin shoulders hung a blue cloak with trinkets, and something incredibly bright and desperate sparkled from under it - red-yellow-lilac. The artist worked. He threw one stroke on the canvas, another, a third - all this carelessly, casually, playing - then stepped aside, sharply lowered the brush - the crowd shied away, the artist tried on, looked closely and suddenly threw out his hand - time! - and a black bold smear fell on the canvas. It stuck somewhere below, obliquely, clumsily, as if completely out of place, but then there were more strokes, and a few more strokes and touches of the brush - that is, spots - yellow, green, blue - and now on the canvas of colored fog began something to erupt, thicken, show. And a piece of the bazaar appeared: dust, heat, sand heated to a white sound, and a cart loaded with watermelons ... ".

“People imagine a genius, probably like that. These are the highest salaries. Popularity. Growing fame, money. We are humble professional geniuses, we know: genius is torn trousers. These are thin socks. This is a worn coat,” the artist wrote.

“Kalmykov was considered by everyone talented artist- then said one of the artist's colleagues. - This was recognized by very competent people, but the mass of oddities in his behavior did not allow him to achieve the position he deserved. So, he could draw the most magnificent sketch or picture to order, but then cover everything up and write something awkward. For example, he could write Venus de Milo, draw her hands and put a primus into them.

Or depict an actor in a sketch in an absurd costume that does not correspond to the situation and the idea. A mass of the most diverse theories always crowded in his head: either he wanted to build unusual rockets, or a corridor connecting Moscow with Alma-Ata. Or he worked on his dissertation "Connecting sutures of the skull." Even then, his ideas of greatness were clearly manifested. He called himself a cosmic genius, a brilliant artist and said that everyone should kiss his heels ...

IN last years he was not assigned independent work, he often did completely ridiculous things, spoiled. Many of his works, meanwhile, with which his entire apartment is littered, were seen by Moscow artists and considered him best artist cities. He was always slovenly, his appearance and clothes were not interested. Began to smear hair oil paint, explaining that he needed to have black hair for longevity ... He had his own nutrition system: he ate only bread (in his youth he always chewed French rolls), but at the same time, when he went to visit, he ate everything that was given . Then he ate mainly milk, cheese and cottage cheese, but without bread. He didn't eat meat, he was a vegetarian. He said that hot tea and food were unhealthy, electric light was bad for the eyes, so he had no gas, and in the evening he worked by candlelight or sat in the dark.

Domestic poverty was on his heels, he knew what malnutrition and hunger were. Year after year, milk and bread made up his diet. The "furniture" in his kennel was built from bundles of old newspapers tied with twine.

When he was presented with a coat in the Union of Artists, he ripped it open, inserted wedges. Since then, he began to walk in ridiculous outfits, bizarre clothes, which he altered from various old rubbish. He believed that he was creating a revolution in the world of modeling. He considered himself a writer, wrote a lot under false names. He did not know women, kept diaries in which he wrote about his sexual experiences. No one knew if he had ever visited a bathhouse. Slept on the floor on newspapers. IN Lately I didn’t let anyone in, I didn’t accept help from neighbors. ”

Spatial architecture was an important topic of Russian cosmism, so Sergey Kalmykov builds his Towers of Babel, reaching into the sky, and designs some habitable vehicles for space. Sometimes a frog suddenly appears in his “space pastorals”, which must soon turn into a beautiful Princess, and this is easily explained, because the artist, who lived alone, of course, dreamed of a girlfriend, but not of “Venus with Primus”, as he called one of his drawings, but about a sweet and beautiful lady.

The titles of Kalmykov's works are full of pretentiousness: the novel " Last days tour of the legendary Kasfikis, or the Apotheosis of Sergei Kalmykov”, self-portrait “The pretender to absolute immortality - S. Kalmykov”, “Extraordinary paragraphs”, his manuscripts, essays, art history writings, philosophical discourses and novels have been preserved: “Pigeon Book”, “ green book”, “Boom Factory”, “Moon Jazz” and others.

Official criticism did not recognize Kalmykov's work, it caused "unfortunate bewilderment."

"The world is sick. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that only artists can lead the world to salvation". - wrote Sergey Kalmykov

However, now his creations hang in the museums of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Astana and Almaty. Canvases are also kept in private collections. Some of Sergey Kalmykov's paintings are still http://bonart.kz/kalmyikov-s.html And one of the American collectors founded the Sergey Kalmykov Foundation.

In 1962, Sergei Kalmykov retired and was released from work in the theater. For active participation in the production and social work of the theater, Kalmykov was repeatedly awarded with diplomas of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR (in 1940, 1945, 1959).

In March 1967, Kalmykov was taken by ambulance to the hospital in serious condition, where they concluded: “Exhausted, incoherent speech, shaky gait. Paranoid nonsense. Dystrophy". April 27, 1967 Sergei Kalmykov died. Before his death, in a hospital room, he admired the taste of hot food. His resting place is unknown. It's fair to say: planet Earth.

According to the most rough estimates, Kalmykov left behind over one and a half thousand works (drawings, graphics, paintings) and about ten thousand pages of manuscripts. These manuscripts themselves are a kind of "samizdat": stitched, bound and bound books, lavishly illustrated. Without exception, all texts are executed by hand, each letter is a drawing, each page contains a complete composition.

The material uses photographs from the Central State Archive RK.

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First, it must be said right away that genius is a myth that has arisen relatively recently and successfully functions to solve specific problems that are hardly related to the aspects of reality that interest us.

If we replace the question with a more adequate one "Is Pavlensky a talented artist-activist", then we can already argue.

The problem with artistic activism is that it combines two strands: art and political activism. As an activist, it is not very ethical to discuss Pavlensky, since he really does bold things, asserts simple, understandable and sound ideas and is responsible for them. Moreover, his activism is undeniably more ambitious than any picketing and banner-hanging, for which he certainly deserves respect.

On the other hand, one can discuss Pavlensky as an artist. The attitude of critics-philosophers towards him as a whole varies from restrainedly positive to (according to sensations - in most cases) enthusiastic; the problem is that most of them share it Political Views, and a situation arises in which criticism of Pavlensky is equated with support for the regime and general obscurantism.

Any artistic action includes two aspects: aesthetic-conceptual thoughtfulness and effect. Pavlensky's shares are very heterogeneous. Yes, the most good job"Carcass" (the naked artist climbed into a coil of barbed wire, got stuck in it, was rescued by the police, who immediately arrested him), in which he scrupulously orchestrated the situation of changing states of danger-defenselessness-protection-punishment, did not receive such a resonance as a more straightforward and stupid action with nailing the scrotum: its social pathos was completely killed by the disturbing image of the artist.

The action with setting fire to the door is moderately interesting: its most important result (in addition to very beautiful photos) - the actions of the FSB officers, who closed the damaged door with metal sheets, thereby revealing an amazing fear of destroying their own integrity. There was such a stigmatization of non-sterility, a desire to eliminate any traces of external interference, even at the cost of limiting one's own freedom, emerged. It can be compared with the action of a person who, embarrassed by a scratch on his face, will bandage his entire head, while losing the ability to see.

The opposition between intention and result becomes quite obvious if you look at the shares of Pussy Riot (and both belong to the artists in any case). So, they did the same thing several times (on Lobnoye mesto, on the roof of a trolleybus, in the subway, in the XXC). Each time is essentially the same work, but it was the "furore" of the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior that brought their work to a completely different level.

Summing up, I am convinced that Pyotr Pavlensky is a very good artist, with a somewhat uneven creativity, among whose shares there are both outstanding works and passing things.

He went down in history, but he will not create his own school.

Why in the paintings of the so-called. modern art does not have such a level of elaboration of details, as in classical painting?

All over the world, they are especially loved by the Americans, who want to see Russia just like that. He shows the life of a Russian without "masks". Drinking, debauchery, bottom and human vices. Someone respects his work, and someone despises. Each picture carries deep meaning. If you look closely, you can see the history of each character. Many people think that Vasily hates, but maybe he wants the one who saw himself on the canvas to change ?! His work can be described as "Gloomy, but true."

Polish surrealist artist Jacek Yerka has his own special, drawing every detail. His paintings are dominated by warm pleasant colors. Looking at them envelops a sense of magic, the mighty power of nature and the world about which we may not know anything. Paintings give free rein to our imagination and change the perception of reality. Definitely, Jacek Yerka is extraordinary creative artist and his paintings are worthy of our attention.

Works German artist and illustrator Quint Buchholz give our brain "food" for thought. I want to go back to his paintings and look at them again and again. Each has its own history. The palette is pleasant, delicate and weightless. Looking at his paintings you involuntarily calm down and get a feeling of lightness. The artist has held more than 70 exhibitions and his paintings have been awarded numerous and international ones. Among his works everyone will find something to their liking.

Paintings American artist Mark Raiden at first may seem strange and a little crazy, but if you take a closer look at them, you can see the inner experiences of the characters, the world of sincerity and honesty in human relationships and relationships with oneself. Most often, his paintings wind up sadness, sadness and sorrow. The style of performance is described as pop, and his signature element is the "eye and bumblebee", which flicker on each of his works.