I will break for a while with the presentation of museums and artists and open a new topic. You just need to come up with a name. If anyone has any ideas on this, feel free to suggest.
Here's what I thought: the theme of light and the mishandling of pictures sounds like a refrain on my Facebook page. And not the first year. However, I post pretty decent pictures. Sometimes weaker, sometimes stronger, but generally readable. And everything is probably seen as grumbling for those who are not very in the subject. And it is unlikely that anyone comes up with the idea of how much and what kind of material remains “overboard”. And why. It's time to open the veil and show the world all these "charms".
With this post, I open a new album with illustrations for my “groaning”. Illustrations from everywhere. The disease knows no boundaries and has no concept of hierarchies. All countries and all congregations are sick with it. True, to a very different extent. Here we will see with you what happens when the organizers do not bother about the world.
I want to remind everyone of my statement, in which I am absolutely sure - if it is impossible to photograph without distortion, then it is absolutely impossible to simply see without distortion.
I see disrespect in all this farce. To the author of the picture, to the visitors, to themselves in the end. I want to draw your attention to what works and what authors are thrown out to us (I can’t find another word) for showing anyhow.
In this particular case, the portrait of Tenisheva by Repin.
And with my selfie in the middle! Where is the reflection of a young man with an iPhone in his hands? Why is it there? Why is it there? Why is Repin and Tenisheva doing this? For their contribution to the development of everything beautiful and wonderful?
And not somewhere, but in the Tretyakov Gallery. And not the worst nightmare on this topic, but buttercup flowers for warming up. There will be berries, believe me - I have an arsenal of such "good" oh-ho-ho.
And the most important question - to whom to address all these questions?
Someone may object to me that I find fault and make an elephant out of a fly. No, I'm not picky. There are already a lot of places where the exposure takes place in a completely different way. The standards have changed. Everything (if not all, then a lot) is possible with the desire and skill. And at least a drop of respect for all participants in the process.
And what could be more interesting and more important than art?
Ultimately, nothing.
It is very likely that the process of creating art objects is the pinnacle of human activity. And if we think so, can we treat it accordingly? And if we don't think so, then what are we doing in the museum? Especially as organizers-managers.
It is very clear right away in which museum people are trying and doing something, but still not everything works out and jambs come out here and there, but in which one everything is up to the mark and anyhow. This is absolutely obvious to any attentive and at least some kind of outlook visitor. Many viewers who are not too experienced in the topic do not even understand that this state of affairs is not a given, but a consequence. And a consequence of the relationship in the first place, and skills, equipment and budget - only in the second.
So, I invite everyone to participate in inventing the name of the album.
Ilya Repin. Portrait of Princess Maria Tenisheva. 1898. Canvas, charcoal. GTG.
Photo Dan Daniel