Russian dialogues with Gogh

These short essays are an afterword to the novel “Iconnikov”, dedicated to artists of the era of stagnation. The hero of the novel is a free person, but the conditions of time put in front of him restrictions as a creator, so his fate is predictably tragic. The novel ends with a reference to Gauguin’s book “Before and later”, about which Gauguin himself wrote: “Notes are disparate, without continuation, like dreams, like a life, all consisting of separate pieces ...” Exactly here - you will find “you will find” Scattered, without continuation ”Thoughts about the place of the artist in the modern world, often in the form of dialogs. Their goal is to prove that the line between “before” and “later” is conditional, and the art of Theophan Grek, Andrei Rublev and the Gauguen field has one root, which has gone through centuries. The author offers a new view of the painting of ancient Russian artists and artists of our days. The book has many original, albeit controversial ideas. The reader’s right is to divide them or, on the contrary, refute them. In the end, everyone has their own path