Thoughts aloud

We know very little about Mikhail Larionov's first exhibitions. And even more so, how it was met by criticism.

I was going to write about Savrasov in my tour of the world gallery for a long time. You see, when people talk about it, then everyone remembers the textbook "Rooks arrived" and all the stories are connected with it – all copies, resales... Well, and probably two or three landscapes: "elk island in Sokolniki", "Lane", "rainbow". What else do we hear about Savrasov? And in addition, we all constantly hear the same thing – poor and common cliches: the artist of one picture, drunk, died in poverty, a genius who killed his talent, a great loser... In principle-all of course so, after all under the end of the he, received in 24 year title academician, indeed traded their drawings on market himself. And the author's copies of "Rooks" went for three dollars apiece. But, for me personally, it's not that simple. So let me try to write six things about him that I think have influenced him a lot.. Can be something will become clearer – that personally for me means Alexey Savrasov.

And not only the father of Russian futurism. A brilliant Russian artist, writer, art theorist. You can talk about it for years.

Yes, for me in General the story of Mikhail Vrubel is a very sad story. Broken, painful, sad... History genius and as his broke the fate of.

Another author, which for some reason almost completely forgotten even the researchers of the Russian school. And it seems to me, completely undeserved.

We all love to tell stories about the honesty, sincerity and impulse of the real Creator. Why something constantly forgetting about how, that essentially - this craft. Such a tedious, daily craft that without constant practice does not exist.

This artist does not have many famous works at all. But the Kislovodsk series by Aristarchus Lentulov is a completely unique selection of works and today I would like to tell about one of them.

Alexey Leonov has done an incredible number of things in his life, each of which can be called incredible. They changed humanity. But personally, I like this one the most - the first picture that man painted in space.