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I am a professional artist but I don't want to call myself a modern artist because the modern art is anti-art. “We’ve reached the point where Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen might as well be an artist; all he needs is an empty room and some chalk. We pee on things, we pee into things, we pee over things… and call it art,” the art critic Brian Sewell said. “This will end in disaster. In another generation, it will be inconceivable that anyone will be taught how to paint. The blind are leading the blind. The head of painting at the Royal College couldn’t paint a Christmas card…Not enormously. I’ve looked over the edge at death in the past few years enough times; when you’ve done that, you no longer find anything much very depressing.” Now all is possible. Everyone has the opportunity to express himself how he wants, but from this freedom talents don't grow. There is no Giotto, there is no Velasquez, there is no Van Gogh, there is no Picasso. "Talent given by God and must return t...

New Year is the expectation of changes. We are waiting ones! We want changes, but what are we doing for it? We are lazy and inert. Our soul is asleep.  We want a lot, but we do not want to live right.  May be must we think over our life and change ourselves? Then and the new year will be supportive to us .

2010 was a heavy year, and probably, not only for me. I would tell that it was the year of unpleasant discoveries. 1. I have understood that I am the exception in the modern world with my concept of morals and moral laws, that no longer work in the XXI century. 2. I have understood that the nature did not withstand overload, which we make every day with it and has started to revenge us. 3. I have understood that the modern art separated from the people. "Black is white and Kulic (a sandpiper) is the bird of the big flight," contemporary art tells us. But black is black and only! 4. Christ leaves Europe , which have struggled so long with him . Allah will replace Christ a nd Europeans will have learned about the Sheriyat tolerance by soon.   We never know the value of water till the well is dry. 5. I have understood that human life is not worth a brass farthing. The rich is always right, purity and faith are lost. The old men are a burden for young and youth a...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Merry Christmas to you one and all, Goodwill and happiness, Good health throughout the coming year, May all your days be blessed.

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.

Global Visibility of the Total Eclipse of the Moon on 2010 December 21. How often do you get to witness an event that has not been seen since the year 1378, over half a millennium, 632 years ago? See for yourself on Dec. 21st, the first day of northern winter, when the full Moon passes almost dead-center through Earth’s shadow. Is it the source of new life? I would hope for change in our life. December 21 is the day of change. Isn't it?