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A Monologue about Aaron April

The Tretyakov Gallery | Artists On Artists Dmitry Zhilinsky


I remember when we talked Aaron mentioned (that was back when he lived in my studio) that he didn’t like to be pressured.
He didn’t want to listen to anybody, to look up to anybody, to take a leaf from anybody’s book. He himself is the creator. I, for one, used to listen to the advice of my teacher Vladimir Favorsky, to his words of wisdom. The judgment of a master whom you respect both “uplifts” and disheartens.
Aaron was reluctant to take a leaf from anybody’s book. And he didn’t! He could get along without looking up to anyone. He is a very clever person, and there is no denying that. His art is free of guile. Both his sculptures and paintings have “images” which, to be honest, are absent from today’s art. Image is either present or absent. There are people for whom a whole life is not enough to understand, while some others grasp a lot at 20.
The thing is that Aaron’s works “have images”. I figured out for myself how you should treat this modern art, this “imagelessness”. This is art “without image” – that is the translation of the word. The worst thing that can happen is that image is absent. But Aaron has image in all his works! Now they have coined a very convenient word, “art”. And forgot the [Russian] word “iskusstvo” (art). They never say it. They are ashamed to… For “iskusstvo” is like religion, like faith. If a state loses faith, it falls apart. We lost a lot with this “devolution”. We lost tradition.
Aaron likes aestheticism. Whatever you say, aestheticism means a picture marked by some incompleteness. His “Reflection” is a good work. Lots of superb watercolours. He often traveled to Paris and made many watercolours there.
Surikov is said to once have said, “Even a dog can be taught to paint, but the art of painting is something quite different”. But he said that in a dispute, whereas we pick it up as a slogan, which is utterly wrong. Drawing is the basis of the study of art and ancient history. Drawing is very important. Whereas the art of painting is relative. As in the case of April, it emerges by itself.
April has many paintings focused on Biblical subjects. These are big pieces. He still sticks to image thinking. Many people, especially people of our generation, visited April’s show. They came to seek out and to see this image. April has often exhibited in Europe, but this does not mean much for our audience.
I like Aaron’s “Siberian” pieces, his portraits. Everything in his art is charged with meaning; there is nothing accidental. A stranger whose sole idea about art is that


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