 Okay, can you hear me well? Hi everybody, my name is Nadja. Thank you very much for your representation and let's talk about abstract art For the beginning, I would like to offer you a kind of a game. Let's together with me Let's try to distinguish. Is it a conventional art or a kind of self-expression? Do you think it is an expensive abstract art or they all? Okay, so raise your hands those of you who thinks this is an expensive abstract art Thank you very much, but You're wrong. This is a drone of three years old child Let's try again. What do you think about it? Isn't it who who of you think this is an art? Yeah, you're right. This is William de Koonfield. Maybe you saw it. It's a composition estimate price 200 million US dollars And you guess it's about that. Do you think it's a child work? No, yes, no Good really art experts Sam Gilliam coffee time 1977 estimate price 300,000 US dollars But enough games. Let's talk about abstraction. What is it an abstraction? Abstruction is a kind of generalization the Breaking apart from insignificant the attempt to take away all the small insignificant insignificant details and to We all know the verb to generalize to summarize to take the content the most important things well abstract art exists since 19th century and The attempts to generalize the art have been done Earlier in the middle of 18th 19th century by the British painter William Turner. He tried to Make such a landscape where we can hardly Distinguish hardly recognized the locomotive rushing through the rain through the Fog This is very early for this time because in the 19th century the art Academies and the schools were overheld with a kind of conservative realistic or academic art and Which had actually nothing to do with the common needs of society of that time so the artists they tried to find the new form of self-expression the new form of Style which would be more actual to that time. We all know well that in 17 in 80 70s impressionism Did a kind of a revolution in art? But the very important event for the abstract art was actually the discovery of the cave Altamira with this find the primitive art was discovered which meant that 15,000 years ago or even 5,000 years ago the realistic art the kind of that art existed so if we compare These images the bison which was painted 15,000 years ago and the bull of Paulus Potter junior from this painting of 17th century is That really the difference of six and a half thousand years in between is it really six and a half thousand years of artistic evolution? So with which the discovery of cave Altamira was the biggest problem for the Artists of this time where they had to rethink the problem of the art perception if The art had hasn't changed that much Did they still need to paint the nature once again whether there was a need to repeat the nature repeat each leaf each flower so they Moved to the obstruction through the impressionism to the new form of art of self-expression of Kind of deconstruction in art Maybe you're surprised now by seeing such a realistic work by Vasily Kandinsky Vasily Kandinsky is actually considered as a father of abstractions the Lord of European abstraction But as many other artists of classic abstraction He was starting with a realistic art like that. He was born in Odessa and moved which is you can see in this painting and moved to Moscow where he was really impressed by the cathedrals by the city itself by the Russian art by the museums and As many other rich boys from the merchant family he studied law in Moscow University And as he was in his magista studies He was sent the kind of expedition to Russian villages where he had to study the remains of Villages law or legal system They are in northern north of Russia. He realized he wanted to be only painter, but not a lawyer He was so much impressed by Russian art Russian folk art fairy tales and legends icons and other subjects of people's art With that it impressed him for all his life I will quote as he entered one of the old Russian village houses as he wrote later the Painting has surrounded him and he was inside of the painting During all his life and creative way He uses some motifs and figures from the Russian folks out like here for example bright Russian beauty 1903 Here you can see that he combines the old Russian motif the motif from Russian fairy tale with the abstract Elements like downstairs you can see In his creative evolution the figurative art and this is certainly figurative art Can we can meet it during all his life? So he is a consequent obstruction Artist but also uses the element of figurative art for him The motif of the rider on a horse and especially the motif of the warrior struggling with the aerials struggling with a daemon with the dragon It's very important. It's really complicated to Recognize but this motif the St. George from 1911 the totally abstract composition is actually inspired by the old Russian icon St. George fighting with the dragon from the collection of Kandinsky because since this northern exhibition He was collecting art Old Russian art and he was taking it with him in Munich in Switzerland in France and they were always accompanying him Let's have a look to this active diagonal It's a copy of St. George Same like here and we can even recognize the figure of the rider there above and the silhouette of the dragon downstairs one of the most famous Paintings of Kandinsky the first abstract composition was painted in near Munich in Murnau in which he tried to combine the Different colors as a language because he invented the language of colors for Kandinsky white men pureness and calm black gloomy thoughts and alarm and red is nervousness Every color had a special significance and combining of its colors meant To create a special emotional message emotional idea One of the most famous and highlight highlights of Kandinsky is a composition number seven today is in the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow This is a huge composition was written only in four days, but the premier preliminary works took Many months and 30 sketches and studies. He was working in oil and water colors He was photographing consequently each part of his preliminary work and the He was documenting documenting that process to create these huge composition three meter to two only in four days Here many art critics and art history historians distinguished later a lot of biblical motifs like for example survival from the dead the blooms they flood and Paradise garden Kandinsky as many other artists of abstract art commented his paintings and he was writing lots of theoretical messages about this art as well as many books with which were written also in German and Almost for every painting we can find a special comment which helps us to understand this painting But now Let's have a look to another famous abstract artist Pete Mondrian. It's a Dutch and later American artist he was starting his career in the middle in the beginning of 20th century and as we can see he started as well as a rather Traditional artists inspired by Van Gogh what we can see in this meal lit with the Sun inspired by post impressionism by pointillism and many Still traditional movement in art, but already in 1908 1910 he started to develop a special very special style, which is clearly to see in This evolution of compositions with a tree like the red tree of 1908 Apple tree of a gray tree of 1911 and the apple tree 1913 we can see like in five years His style evolves to the very special geometrical form which will lead later to the Neoplasticism the special style he invented and developed Look at this apple tree, which becomes more and more geometrical and brings the Painter to the peer and ocean of 1916 From this point We can talk about Neoplasticism Neoplasticism as a special style invented by pitmond ryan Which was a kind of self-reduction self-limitation to the very special color palette What we can see here the primary free color thread yellow and blue and the primary two directions vertical and horizontal are the main instruments of Neoplasticism pitmond ryan said that neoplasticism was a kind of a pure beauty the beauty which doesn't need any other further means of expression and Pitmond ryan is very well known with these such compositions another example, I would like to show it's a very famous American artists of Abstract expressionism or abstract artists. It's a Jackson Pollock or Jack the Dripak and Now you can see him in his atelier. Well, he also started as a painter with a admiring to Pablo Picasso and many other artists of classical modern. He was working with the easel traditionally painting on the Special surfaces of canvases, but as he moved and built him his atelier where he had so many space He was rethinking this process and putting the canvas on the floor moving around the canvas Putting the oil with the special brushes and sticks on it which didn't let the oil flow and Jackson Pollock was in a kind of a psychological trance. He was not interrupting his work till it was ended that could Take many hours during like for five or six hours till he thought the painting was Ready, I would like to quote Jackson Pollock as well because I find that this quotation very similar to what Kandinsky was writing 15 50 years before in 1947 he told to the magazine possibilities on the floor. I am more at ease I feel nearer more part of the painting since this way I can walk around it walk from the floor sides and literally be in the painting this is the Being inside of the painting which make Jackson Pollock and Kandinsky the abstract artists from the one Position and I would like to offer some keys to read the abstract art to understand it better So I would like to offer to read the biography of an artist in any way because I personally do not believe that Abstract art can exist without an academic education So when we read the biographical biography of an artist we understand where He or she started and what which was her development of an artist We also always need an idea of an abstract art because if we don't have an idea We don't understand what is about The idea is normally told by the artist itself himself or by the critics or by some article So abstract art. It's a kind of art. We have to be prepared for that because if not We can just not get it We have to look for a kind of a system ideology or philosophy the system like the color Language of Kandinsky or like the special style of Jackson Pollock or the system of limitation by Pitman Rian the system helps us to understand the idea of the painter and the Language and What I think one of the most important things about it is a creative evolution of an artist Well, we have seen Kandinsky. He started as a realist a realist Pitman Rian started the less post impressionist and they came to the abstract idea in Searches in a long artistic way, which helps us to understand that this or that abstract piece of art Appeared not just like that. Thank you very much So thank you Nadia very interesting and yeah, I've seen some of those pieces of works of art in various galleries around the world So two things firstly there's some people still sort of the back There are some seats around here at the side if you'd like to work your way through it. No escaping Secondly are there some at the front as well and secondly are there any questions from the audience? For Nadia, yes Sorry, the question is in no way that a new person into art could make money with art can make money without certainly but it's about So the question of making money in art is a little bit different dimension But it's one of the most complicated. I think I find personally but there is a lot of new persons in art who make great money with it Okay Thank You Maybe Just for the video can I repeat the questions the question I think there was how do we differentiate neoplasicism from minimalism? Okay, thank you very much for a question. Well, I would say that neoplasitism It was a style what was invented by Pete Mondrian personally with a special term Neoplasitism is a new plastic style and Minimalism it's a kind of a style which we can use in our life in our interior in our Philosophy ideology in literature. It's a different dimension as well. So the style in art or the personal very special individual Development like neoplasitism you can divide it just like that because it was an invention with its its name by Pete Mondrian He didn't invent minimalism And in the in the in the dimension of a language Pete Mondrian described himself what he calls neoplasitism. It's a kind of How we call it patent He said well, I invented neoplasitism at that means that and that and that and everybody after him can say well Neoplasitism it's a kind of minimalism for sure, but it's a very special Name special time and the special person first of all Okay, thank you. Any other questions? Oh Suppose the computer could do abstract art with concrete art like you give them very Photography or something and it would just abstract details away Would there be some value in these kind of pictures? Or is it just because there's no history to this computer or computer program that's completely worthless? Well, it's very subjective for me personally not But for the people who invented computer Who is able to make art? Of course, I would never buy a thing of a piece of art made by computer But I do buy some computers for me. Well, it's a you know, it's about the hand of a painter It's about the idea. It's about well what I was talking about its classical art. It's a museum art But since that time there is so many things which are not in the museum and still Cold art and they are art. It's about also It's about the clever person the curator or art historian will say well this computer is very good very talented It's certainly art and will cost one million US dollars and maybe some day we find a person from another place who will buy that It's a also always the problem of value Good one one last question then we have to move on. Thank you. I was always curious Who does the assessment of the price? I mean how the price for the big pop sakatas is for you So the question was how do we price art? you mean today there are auction houses the Activity of people around this piece of this or that piece of art some Extremely successful art critical articles. It's a little bit old technology today It's about yeah auction houses and this kind of marketing But what we are talking about is really museum art and cost very much money. It's a little bit different It's more complicated to discuss it about today's art. Who makes the money the prices for that? Okay, guys, I'm sorry We're gonna have to move on but there is a coffee break and you can grab hold of Nadia Watch he's had a beer and then ask him more questions about the philosophy art because there's three questions I want to ask her as well. So that was really interesting. Thank you very much. Thank you