PAINTING
Appearance (the, that the vulgar critics call form) always prevailed in French art. In life, it gave “Parisian chic”, in the art of painting that gave the advantage over the other arts.
Painting - the most common, the most influential French art. Not even talking about apartments. Cafes and restaurants are completely covered with pictures. At every step of the store exhibition. Huge domische - cell studio. France has given thousands of known bear. And in each a thousand accounts with name writing, who not only has no name, but also the name of anyone not known, apart from the concierge.
I tossed from picture to picture. I seek out some opening. Forward to staging a new pictorial tasks. To achieve in today's picture of Paris face opening.
Look in the corners of paintings - looking though a new name.
In vain.
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 - make car. fence for kartynoy.
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. even 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!
[1922]