Journal. Crisis of art and modern painting. Questions of painting. The release of the 4th.

Journal. Crisis of art and modern painting. Questions of painting. The release of the 4th.
A. Grishchenko. City printing house. Moscow, 1917, 30 p., softcover, format 25 x 16 cm. Good condition.

In the work, the author tried to contradict his opponents — those who, like Berdyaev, talk about the crisis of art, which does not really exist, trying to "justify their crisis, the crisis of morality, ephemeral "Theosophical" theories and "cosmic revolutions"by painting. In fact, Grishchenko wrote, painting develops according to its own laws. He clearly identified in his article a number of specific problems of the art of painting, successfully resolved by cubism. This is the problem of Valera, texture, color of the picture, the introduction of a new perspective that "transmits space really" by dissecting objects with planes, and finally-the problem of composition as a" solid construction " of the picture. And in this, it can be noted, Grishchenko's speech was very strongly imbued with the moods of the pre-war Russian avant-garde, which asserted itself in the intention to follow its own laws of the art of painting.

Alexey Grishchenko (1883-1977) - painter, art critic and memoirist.