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"Lilac" by Valentin Massov, 1979 "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better".  André Gide I think just as he. The artist has to give to people beauty of nature and men's souls. We must remember Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? We are God's children and not the children of evil. http://valentinmassov.wix.com/lightart

"Lilfc" by Valentin Massov, 1979 In the beginning was the Light. But the Darkness has came and people adopted it. And now he who gives people Good and Light is the outcast person. Valentin Massov is the artist who make what nobody has made yet, everything that is left by the Art on the Earth. He makes the Light. http://valentinmassov.wix.com/light

Valentin Massov A creative person is doomed to be an outcast in our world. He looks in future and sees that the others don't see. He creates future by his creativity. He is not one of the many. He is the unique. A mob doesn't like the uniques. They speak furiously: "If you are not with us you are against us". They hate him for his talent. They turn him into a pariah. They kill him. And next they deplore deeply and erect a monument to him. Because he is no longer a threat to them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR VALENTIN !!!

The artist Valentin Massov You would like to attain faith, and do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of unbelief, and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you will quiet your proudly critical intellect...

A diamond is always hidden from human eyes. We should take some pains to a diamond becomes the diamond. So it is with a talented artist. Society should work to his talent becomes the cultural heritage of the all world. "A sunflower" watercolour by Valentin Massov, 1979

    This is my interview on Radio DK. It's in Russian. I decorated it with slideshow to was interesting. Sergei Ponomarev was the anchorperson. I told about my family, my life, my studies in Penza Art Colledge and my carrer in art.

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better".  (André Gide) "The flowers" by Valentin Massov , 1979

The artist Valentin Massov Sooner or later the world will learn about this artist.  And we will see a new heaven and a new earth.

Valentin Massov's Gallery

Valentin Massov's magical water-colours are woven out of light. Light is not physical substance. Light is energy and a man can not touch it. It is impossible in what way light is transformed into the image on his works. "I am an atomist. And I can feel the energy with my hands. The Bible is begun with the words: "In the beginning was the Word."But I would say:" In the beginning was the Light," and your paintings are the illustration for these words," an academician-atomist said him in 1980. "Many people have tried to fall outside the limits a matter. Mathematicians, poets, musicians have managed to do it. From artists, even Leonardo da Vinchi, couldn't do it and you have done it..," the poet Alexandr Revich said.What is the meaning of art? It's performance for someone, the way to perfection for me. Valentin Massov's art has helped me see the beginning my way. Thanks to my meeting with Mr.Massov, I understood the meaning of lif...

What do make us the very best? It's Talent! I am sure, The God of Art Apollo was present at birth of Valentin Massov .  But... if Apollo has gave to him the Talent, when he was born, then The Fates have gave to him difficult and bitter fate. Envy and incomprehension haunted him all his life. Valentin Massov is the Unique. Why is he unique? He has created the new art school. It's the new interpretation of the meaning of art. It's Art as the Way to the God. "It is not painting in its general sense. It is the way to the God," a director Roman Tsurtsumia said in 1980. Valentin Massov's art radically changed the established views on Art.

Valentin Massov was born in Ulyanovsk Region in 1937. His father Paul Massov, who died at the front in 1942, was the mysterious person. He was a doctor. Nobody knew Where he came from. He was an exelent doctor and everybody loved him. He was a tall and a handsome man. His image is as if dissolved in sad mist of memory of Valentin Massov, getting the features of forefather of humanity, a certain Savaof God, wise philosopher and leader. His mother Catherine Massov who died in 1939 was believer woman. In his memory she will forever remain as guardian angel, angel of peace, love and life. Massov has took all the best from his parents and was able to surpass them. He has became the very best in the Art World.

Light. Who does know its nature? We can see it every day and we take no notice of it. This is norm. But just imagine that there is no light on Earth. Well? It's the end of life. So, light is the basis of all. Many artists have attempted to reproduce of light in art. Light and shade. There are more shade, there are more light. It's principle of work of all artists. Except of Valentin Massov . The artist Valentin Massov makes light without shade. It's light from light. As Oleg Tselkov said:"You make what nobody has made yet, everything that is left by the art on the Earth..."

Artists are selected on the basis of: the worse the better. The artist have to work for entertainment of public and promotion of base instincts. I say because I know state of affairs in Russian art. There are many talented people in the province and nobody knows them. Only after their death we can hear ones names, when their paintings start to buy and to sell. The best artist is the dead artist. It is the law of the market. The famous artist in Russia is a lucky man or a talented businessman. But it is not art. Honestly speaking I don’t know anyone from very talented artists who has made a successful career in Russia. And the most famous example is the fate of the artist Valentin Massov . He created a truly new direction in art. But who did hear his name? We can admire of another culture and destroy ours one at the same time. It’s our life!

What is Art in my mind? Art is the way to knowledge of the unknown. Art must search the new way of development but contemporary art has chosen a false way - the way of the black art. It is the road to nowhere. we made the Art a servant of the consumer but Art is not a design and an artist is not a designer. If I did not know about the new perfection in Art I would not talk about it. The artist Valentin Massov created the new direction in Art - Spiritual Realism. His water color works radiate light. Unfortunately I can not exhibit Valentin Massov's works which he has made in the period 1975 - 1979, because my camera can not make them. I can only tell about him.

Self-portrait (1953) I have had a dream last night. I saw Valentin Massov .  He was 16 . He was young and impetuous .   "Y ou 'll be famous soon , " I said him.   I do not know how this is possible .   I saw him such as he had been a long ago .   I knew it was true and that he was such as I saw him in my   slumber .  A boy with soul of child. You have lived a hard life but you have not sold your soul.  My dream was reality and I was shocked.

Today , Mr. Putin is going to talk on-line with the Russians . I am about to ask Mr. Putin about the current state of culture in Russia . Why does nobody want to think about the future of Russian culture? There is the genius in Russia, the artist Valentin Massov. His art is the great achievement of the human culture. Why does nobody want to his art  become heritage of all mankind ? Why?