Pictures at an Exhibition. A German boy

Valentin Massov reads poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Boris Pasternak

Pictures at an Exhibition. Supper with Picasso

"Supper with Picasso" is the title of my painting http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Paintin... and the title of the animation film. "Supper with Picasso" is not a story of everyday life. These are my thoughts about Art. I think contemporary art follows a false scent.

This is surreal off-the-wall humor. This is my protest against abomination in the contemporary art.

Picasso said:" The real artists are Giotto and Rembrandt, I'm just a clown, who understood his time". He was right.

Valentin Massov reads a poem of Nazim Hikmet

Valentin Massov

A lamp, a cat and Picasso

It's my second animation film.
This is a series of animation films about my pictures. The first film dedicates to my painting "A lamp, a cat and Picasso".

My first animation film

"The artist Massov" by Olga Romanova (O.R. Studio)

Everything But Arms

Penza Art College

 

 

Penza Art College was created by the personal funds of the Penza Lieutenant-General N. D. Seliverstov, who has bequeathed to Penza town three thousand rubles, and his entire collection of books and paintings "for the establishment of the Drawing School."
The first director of the college was a famous artist, an  academician of painting Konstantin Savitsky. He made a number of changes to the layout and design of the building and he developed a training program that largely resembled existed before the reform program in 1891 the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
In 1955, the college was named after Mr. Savitsky. There are four specialties in the college:
1. Painting (4-5 years) - prepares teachers of drawing and sketching for schools and children's art schools;
2. Decorative-design (design) (4 years) - prepares graphic artists (designers);
3. Sculpture (4-5 years) - prepares sculptors artists;
4. Theatrical-decorative (4 years) - prepares theater artists.

P.S. Penza Art College is the place where I was happy :)

 

 

 

My modest achievement :)

My works in the OSTWIND magazine

I am like Sisyphus in the modern world. I would like recognition as a talented artist but my efforts are vain. I see it's Sisyphean labour to dash against the rock of incomprehension. But I continue to fight.

Valentin Massov

Valentin Massov

http://valentinmassov.wix.com/lightart

Valentin Massov was born on April 11, 1937 in family of a doctor. His father Pavel Massov was killed in the Great Patriotic War in 1942. His mother Ekaterina Massova died in 1939. Valentin Massov was brought up in the children's home.
Valentin Massov tells:
- I was four years old. My elder brother got as a present the coloured pencils. I took those pencils and told him: "I'll not give back!" And my mother's sister, my dear person (she was a prayer-woman), said: "Don't touch him, he will be the artist."
Valentin Massov entered to the Penza Art College in 1953. His ideal in Art became Velasquez - the great Spanish painter.
In 1955 Valentin Massov met with Arcady Plastov - the academician of painting. Having looked his works he said: "The God has given you spiritual vision of the world. Do work anyhow and don't listen to anybody. There are many vandals in the art in our time."
This meeting has affected on the further creative development of Valentin Massov.
Valentin Massov tells:
- I have didn't understand Plastov's words for a long time. But the more you'll love the more you'll congnize, and the more you'll cognize the more you'll love. It is development. In 1962 I met with very interesting critic. She said: "You are very talented artist. But your art is constructed on feelings. And when feelings will come to the end. What will you do?"
" I would like that all artists lose the opportunity to work, when them feelings will come to the end. Then would be no the bad pictures," I answered her.
The autumn 1962 Valentin Massov had a creative trip to Kuban. The necessity of this trip was after the exhibition of Renato Guttuso. After the exhibition he has realised Plastov's words: "You must work anyhow and don't listen to anybody." Kuban, a new nature, the new conditions, a beautiful autumn have opened the new possibilities to him. He was working 2 years (1962-1963) in this condition. But when he declared as an abstract artist and a formalist, (remembering words of Plastov), he became to work a watercolour.
The whole of September 1970 Valentin Massov was travelling across Kirghizia. From this time he has begun to open the art of watercolour for himself.
 Valentin Massov tells:
- I met with Alexander Myzin - the professor of painting in 1972.
" Your soul and Dionisius artist's soul are related. You'll give a new impulse in the art," he said me.
The words of A. Plastov and A. Myzin were always with me.
In 1975 Valentin Massov was accepted in the Union of artists by the recommendations of the artist Vitaly Gojaev and the academician of art criticism Michel Alpatov.
In 1977 Valentin Massov was in Moscow. There were many people which liked his works there. They have made a meeting with the artist Oleg Tselkov. His opinion was very significant for them. When Oleg Tselkov has looked his works, he said: "You make what nobody has made yet, all that was left by the art on the Earth."
Valentin Massov tells:
- The importance of the words of Oleg Tselkov I understood only after 1979 - the year of my revelation.

What is to be done?

"Spring" by Olga Romanova

What is contemporary art? It is Art of our time. But I am an artist who lives in our time. So I have the right to my opinion in Art. I don't like the contemporary experiments with Art. I don't understand why the dead shark must cost 12 million dollars. I don't like the contemporary "witchcraft". So I am not a contemporary artist. What is to be done?

My thoughts

There are many artist in the world. I would say too much. But in fact, there are few the talented artists in the world. And I am one from them. I think the real talent is as rare as the jewel in the sea. I think the talent artist have the right to a special approach. I am 43 and I am not a beginner artist. I would like to have a special approach to myself and to my works.

"Self-portrait with the cymblings" by Olga Romanova, 1993

International Contemporary Artist Vol VI

 

International Contemporary Artist Vol VI

There are my works here. I am very glad. I liked the catalogue. Everything was done high-level.

I like it

I like to paint people's pictures. This work gives me chance to communicate with very interesting people. Yes I just like it.

Read Art. "Galina" by Olga Romanova, 2013

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday dear Christ!

"December, 25" by Olga Romanova, 2013

Read Art

God is Love

"God is Love" by Olga Romanova, 2012

Of Course! God is Love! But how do you think? If not Love then what is God? Only Love can tolerate to such mankind.

The Light

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

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"The bird cherry flowers" by Valentin Massov

Read Art

 "A White horse" by Olga Romanova, 2011

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger."
2011 was a year of change for me, the year of bad discoveries and disillusionments. I took a different view of this world and the people living in it. My emotions found an outlet in new art movement which I created in 2011. I named it the "Read Art".
In principle, the "Read Art" was born thanks to this experience. One day, I came home in a very bad mood (after another dose of  injustice). I took the Bible and read: "Vengeance is mine, I will repay."
I wanted to impress these words in my memory  forever, as a reminder that the evil is ruling over the world.
I drew this idea, as seen and understood. In a little while I realized that this was a new step in my work.
"Read Art" is painting that can be read. We can say, this is my conversation with the audience by means of colours.
Why did I choose the English language? Firstly, because I am studying it, and it is a very interesting process. Secondly, precisely because the language is not native, I see it more as a pattern, a kind of technique in painting, rather than as words.
"Read Art" is the ability to draw with the word and write with the thought.
These works were created under the impression of "Revelation."

Be like children!

"A cat hunter" by Olga Romanova

Be like children! It's worth considering. These words are not only simply words. These are the key to your development. The brains of child does not perceive evil around him, therefore the child does not submit to it. And if you do not submit to evil, you will able to perfect yourself. Because only evil is an obstacle in your path to perfection.

What does it mean to be a modern artist in modern world?

What is Art today? Is it business, show, or some thing else perhaps?
I know many artists who successful in business, but they are not talented artists. And I know many really talented artists who live in utter misery, but they make real art.
In my mind art loses its initial meaning to be a guide to the world of harmony and beauty.
Why an artist can not be a just artist?

"It's misty" by Olga Romanova