I Cavalieri dell'arte sfogliabile

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 worked 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.
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