Valentin Massov reads poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Boris Pasternak

Valentin Massov reads a poem of Nazim Hikmet

Valentin Massov

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?

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

A new heaven

"A boy with Torah" by Olga Romanova

“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first  heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists  no more.   And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of  the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her  husband. And I heard a loud voice out of the heaven, saying, Behold,  the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall tabernacle  with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall  be with them, their God. And he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and  death shall not exist any more, nor grief, nor cry, nor  distress shall exist any more, for the former things have  passed away…”

Culture and humanity

 "The flowers" by Valentin Massov

The term "culture," originally meant the cultivation of the soul or mind, and it was the true meaning of this word. Now, we lost it. What is more,  we lost the consept of the soul. A modern man lives without the soul. He lives like an animal, in a one day. Loss of culture will be mean loss of the human race, because culture is that distinguish us from the beasts. If we don't remember about our soul, we will lose our civilization.