Moscow Park Uskoe. It is amazing that all you need to do to find yourself in a quiet place without the noise of the big city is take an eight minute walk from Metro Konkovo.
This is special place for my wife and me. We enjoyed our time together there by talking a walk. On one sunny day when the sun was going down, (it's getting dark at 4 during winter time in Moscow) we saw a beautiful view. The colors of the sunset were bright and alive, snow was reflecting interesting colors. I think everyone would notice the beauty of nature if they would see something similar to that. I personally truly enjoy nature when I can put my impressions on the canvas. Even then I don't feel satisfaction because I can not fully transmit what is inside. When it happens I better understand what Dostoevsky said: "I am now reading over what I have just written, and I see that I am much cleverer than what I have written. How is it that what is expressed by a clever man is much more stupid than what is left in him?"..
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"Observe," he said; "photographs very rarely turn out good likenesses, and that one can easily understand: the originals, that is all of us, are very rarely like ourselves. Only on rare occasions does a man's face express his leading quality, his most characteristic thought. The artist studies the face and divines its characteristic meaning, though at the actual moment when he's painting, it may not be in the face at all. Photography takes a man as he is, and it is extremely possible that at moments Napoleon would have turned out stupid, and Bismarck tender".
Fyodor Dostoevsky. A Row Youth. Yesterday I visited the Akron Art Museum, at that time there was an exhibition of the artist El Anatsui. After I saw his first exhibit, I had a lot of controversial questions about purposes and proposals of his artwork. Although when I observed the rest of his artwork and got to know more about it, and heard his interpretation of his works, many issues have disappeared. Then I realized that it is a mistake to make conclusion about creation of an artist when you did not maintaining sufficient information.
More information about El Anatsui http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/artists/anatsui/ http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/gawu/artworks.html |
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