Whatever I painted in the past, present or future there will only be pictures of Kalaveras, which is common to all of mankind’s visions of any landscape or event, being reflected through my consciousness or the Country Kalaveras, but really existing in my imagination or the Country Kalaveras, which is reflected by me.
To understand why my method lets me work in so-called different styles and techniques, it is necessary to analyze the whole art in general and style directions in particular; and also the whole philosophy and theosophy of the past and present.
If we have a look at the whole art created by mankind through their lifetime of the so-called Homo Sapiens Epoch objectively, i.e. without subjective details, but in general - we’ll see one thing in common that unites the artists of all times and nations. It is an attempt to express through their subjectivism the truth of life, i.e. realism and to show the others the subjective truth, i.e. absolute reality. That is what I am striving for as well. But what prevents us to reach realism or absolute reality? First of all it is our universal unwillingness to become aware of the reality. It would seem that for so many years a man has been trying to investigate, give names, decompound, i.e. analyze and regulate everything. But we do all these proceedings from our subjectivism. That is examining any object or event, we lay on it our consciousness, i.e. our so-called knowledge or culture, including family upbringing, knowledge obtained from school or higher school, religious convictions, political views, national identity and so on and so forth.
We deduced long ago and know, passing from generation to generation, that the laws of nature are the laws of reality. One of the descriptive geometric laws, the most important law for fine art reads, “On the flat it is materially possible to depict only a flat”. But as soon as we start to paint on the flat, especially when we begin the viewing of what is painted on it; hereupon we forget this law and look at the flat and the illusion of space, depicted on it, like at the real space. The same is related to photography, cinematography and particularly to the so-called computer graphics.
This relatively young tool of art has pretensions of being a separate kind of art, which it will never be unless and until a plane image on the monitor exists. Currently, everything depicted with the help of a computer, including the so-called 3D graphics, is nothing else but a usual collage. This is the system of windows and flats together, which is demonstrated on the same flat - a screen, being carried out with the help of more modern table toolbar. As stated above, we can conclude that being depicted on a flat, like it would seem reality is merely an illusion of this reality, depicted on a flat, and actually can not be a reality! The only exception currently available is “Black Square” by Kazimir Malevich. He shows real like real, a square like a square having even its concrete size, and names what he shows - “Black Square”, which on the flat depicts a flat. That is why it is the only realistic work in the world. But by virtue of our surrealistic consciousness we are not ready to perceive real as real owing to its seeming simplicity. Everybody sees in it not what the artist shows us but what we want to see there by ourselves; someone sees “Absolute Painting” and someone - a goat in a sarafan. (A Japanese flag can not be a realistic image, because a depicted red circle is a symbol of a real rising sun and it doesn’t reflect real as real, but only symbolizes it; i.e. this image is relative, thus surrealistic). The same is related to the so-called abstract art or, to be more exact, to the method of portrayal. Abstract art can not exist in nature, because abstract is only what is created with idle consciousness and subconsciousness taken together. And this is only with a dead man’s power. Moreover, if such a work, even if there seem to depicted nothing on it except spots and lines, has a name, it can not be abstract because of its very name, concretizing and explaining what was being painted, and automatically making it surrealistic. As stated above, we can conclude that everything we see and furthermore depict is nothing else but SURREALISM. That means on real we can see, if we like it or not, lays our subjective conscious perception of what we see and depict, which is based on cultural belonging to this or that ethnos.
It doesn’t matter what kind of picture method, also known as style or trend in art, we use: let it be abstractionism, cubism, realism, etc; it is only a technique of the method called SURREALISM, because there can not be differently by virtue of a man’s narrow-mindedness.
That is why the method I use for depiction of Kalaveras is a classical SURREALISM, where I easily apply any portrayal techniques, from the so-called abstract portrayal technique up to the so-called realistic one, based on this or that problem posed by me; and I am a 100 per cent classical artist.
Kaif & Oblom
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