PAINTING
Appearance (the, that the vulgar critics call form) always prevailed in French art.
In life, it rushed ingenuity Parisians in suit, given the so-called “Parisian chic”.
In the art of painting that gave the advantage over all other arts - the most prominent, the most elegant art.
Arts and now the most common and most influential French art.
Projects furnishing apartments, exhibited at the Salon, It occupies a prominent place picture.
Cafe, any Rotunda entirely covered with pictures.
Fish restaurant - for some reason, all in landscapes Picabia.
Each step - store exhibition.
Huge domische - cell studio.
France has given thousands of the most famous names in painting.
For each named are a thousand, with only a surname. On each with the name there are thousands - no name, no last name do not matter, apart from the concierge.
To plug his ears buzzing from dozens of destroying each other theories, you need to have a precise familiarity with the previous painting, to get the whole impression, not to fall into the power of pictures - some bacteria are not having the slightest influence of art school.
I receive pre-war circuit: leader of cubism, Cubism is attacked by a bunch of krasochnikov “simultanistov”, a non-party side neutrality heaps “wild”, and on all sides by the ocean cloth countless academics and salonschikov, and sideways - darting underfoot all some “last cry”.
Armed with this scheme, I turn off the flow to the river, from exhibition to exhibition, from the web to the web. I think - this scheme is only a guide. It is necessary to reveal the face of today's picturesque Paris. I do desperate sortie from this scheme.
I seek out some lovely outdoor. Forward to staging any new pictorial tasks. I look in the corners of pictures - looking at least a new name. In vain.
Everything in its place.
Only the improvement of manners, less skill. And many artists retreat, decline.
Still center - Cubism. Picasso still - Chief of Army Cubist.
Still rude Spaniard Picasso “oblagorazhivaet” naipriyatneyshy greenish Marriage.
Still theorize Metsenzhe and Gleize.
Still trying to recover Leger Cubism to his main task - volume.
Still irreconcilably at war with the Cubists, Delaunay.
Poprežnemu “wild” Deren, Mathis makes picture after picture.
Still with all this, there is one last cry. Now these are the responsibilities and vseotritsayuschee vseutverzhdayuschee “to-be”.
And still ... all orders fulfilled countless bourgeois Blanche. Eight years some activity lethargy.
This clearly shows each svezhepriehavshemu.
It is felt sitting in painting.
With what zeal, with any interest, how eagerly they questioned about their aspirations, on Russian opportunities.
of course, not about the dead Russian Somovs, not about completely discredited culture abroad instantly transitioning to Gippius Malyavina, and on October, of RSFSR.
For the first time not from France, and flew from Russia a new word art - constructivism. further surprised, that this word is in the French lexicon.
Not Constructivism Artists, that of the good and the right wires and tin make unnecessary sooruzhenitsa. constructionism, understanding the formal work of the artist only as engineering, required for registration of all our practical life.
Here, the French artists have to learn from us.
It does not take head-fiction. For the construction of a new culture is necessary to clean the place. Need october broom.
And what is the ground for the French art? -Parquet Parisian salons!