There are many artists in the world today. This is good. May we speak about new Renaissance in art? No! I see of many who want to earn by art any way, and only. Contemporary artists don't think about themselves as about the great artists. They don't think about meaning of the art and meaning of the life. The artist has not to deteriorate to the level of the crowd. The artist is the man who has to show to people the possibility of their development. The contemporary art shows only the way to destruction. It is the art without the future.
“ There are lonely artists. They do not find any response or recognition during their lifetime. Away from the generations of their time, from the rapidly arising and drifting away “requests”, “directions” and “currents”, they contemplate and create their own, lonely, appealing as if not even to people (“Accept! Delve into ! Heal and get wiser ! ”), but to God (“Receive my lonely prayer!”). They do not turn away from people, but people turn away from them: people look but do not see, listen but do not hear, or, in the words of Heraclitus, " absent being present”. I. Ilyin “The Lonely Artist”. - I was four years old when my older brother was given colored pencils. I took these pencils and said: "I won't give them back ." And a person dear to me, my mother's sister, said: "Don't touch him, he will be an artist." (V. M.) ValentinMassow was born in 1937, on the centenary of the death of A.S. Pushkin , in the family of a provincial doctor an...
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