Shishkin or Picasso. Who is closer to you and why?
A landscape with an endless horizon … A romantic girl stands next to it and enthusiastically examines the image. There is a smile on her face, her eyes are wide. And in another room, a sullen young man with an unblinking gaze comprehends Picasso's masterpiece with an unusual abstract image. If you look closely, you can see how different they are, these two painting lovers. Both externally and in their preferences …
In the halls of the art gallery, we observe serene landscapes and unique still lifes. And also works of art with completely inexplicable images and strange names.
People choose a certain picture, near which they must stop. They sometimes do not even think about why they are carried away by such a canvas, perhaps explaining this by the fact that everyone has different tastes, and, as you know, they do not argue about them.
A landscape with an endless horizon … A romantic girl stands next to it and enthusiastically examines the image. There is a smile on her face, her eyes are wide. And in another room, a sullen young man with an unblinking gaze comprehends Picasso's masterpiece with an unusual abstract image. If you look closely, you can see how different they are, these two painting lovers. Both externally and in their preferences.
Why do artists express themselves so differently in their work? And why do some people like to look at classical landscapes and portraits, while others are looking for complex abstract paintings?
The emergence of culture. Beauty captured for centuries
Our characteristics are predetermined by the mental nature of a person. The system-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan considers the psyche based on the sets of innate mental properties of a person (with the corresponding needs and desires), combined into eight groups - vectors. The vectors that set the intellectual and cognitive basis are called visual and sound.
The natural role of the visual vector takes its roots from ancient times and creates the basis for the development of culture in society. It is thanks to this vector that a ban on cannibalism arises in the process of the evolution of society. Human life becomes valuable and important. The survival of a weak member of the pack - not a hunter, but a master in art and creativity, ensures the development of culture in an ancient society. The manifestation of feelings such as empathy and compassion for weaker members of the pack removes hostility between people.
Anal-visual jewelers, sculptors, painters have a cultural specific role since ancient times, expressing themselves through art. It is they who make the first jewelry for the skin-visual woman of the leader, who has a special love for beads. The anal vector endows such people with special patience, perseverance, the desire to do the work with high quality and scrupulousness, the desire to work out all the finest details, which is so important in the business of a jeweler and artist.
The role of the visual vector was initially to protect the flock during the day. The role of daytime guards of the pack was performed by skin-visual women. After all, visual people are very observant. Nothing is hidden from their inquisitive gaze.
The visual vector provides its owner with the "golden ratio in the eyes", gives the ability to see beauty, imagination and the ability to convey any image on the canvas. We are talking about people with the anal-visual vector ligament.
Due to the large visual periphery, a huge amount of imaginative information enters the subconscious of the viewer, bypassing consciousness, and presses, worries, worries him, creating strange images, as it were, premonitions. The correct implementation of such states is translation into creativity, into the creation of masterpieces of art.
It is the spectators who know how to sincerely sympathize with other people. This is their special talent - the ability to compassion and empathy, to emotionally take on the states of other people and feel their pain as their own. Therefore, the development of painting gradually leads to the creation of works that convey emotions and feelings. Anal-visual artists begin to reproduce personal meanings and emotional moods in art. They are masters of landscapes, portraits and paintings that convey dramatic scenes from life.
Over time, a landscape of mood appears - a work that is able to convey joy or sadness through the image of natural phenomena. Recognized masters of romantic landscape - I. I. Levitan, A. K. Savrasov, marine painter I. K. Aivazovsky.
The abilities of visual artists are also manifested in the writing of portraits, in which the artist conveys not only the appearance of a person, but also his individuality, reveals the character of the hero, his feelings and mood. For a visual artist, a painting is an opportunity to express the entire palette of your feelings and emotions. With the help of their works, one might say, they have created a centuries-old emotional connection with art lovers.
Visual perception of painting
Together with creative talents, the visual vector gives a person the ability to deeply perceive works of art. Art fans are mainly people with a visual vector. They manage to understand creations written in the language of feelings and emotions they understand. Lovers of this art also have a need for the exchange of feelings and emotions, which they realize, in particular, in museums and galleries.
Paints, tones, halftones, the image of emotions on a person's face or a fine painting of a vase on a still life - all this can be distinguished only by the eye of a visual person. The viewer enjoys the views: in the foreground of the picture is a flower with half-fallen petals or a broken blade of grass, and in the very corner of the picture, in a small mirror, the artist's self-portrait is reflected. Such small details in the picture or subtle emotions on a person's face - all this delights the inquisitive viewer. He will masterfully find any interesting detail of the artist.
Emotional pleasure is caused by the serene landscapes of I. I. Shishkin, with Russian expanses, saturated with fresh forest air, "Birch Grove" by I. I. Levitan is an alluring white forest with an endless path running away into the distance. Still lifes, flowers and fruits on which are transferred by masters in such a way that their aroma is about to be felt. Viewers can revel in the play of color in the picture, feel emotional uplift when they look at the canvas.
Still life … It would seem that you can see in it? "No matter how it is!" - a lover of painting with a visual vector will answer you. Look closely at the work of Peter Claes "Breakfast": a mess on the table is created by peeled lemon with a hanging peel, plates casually placed on a crumpled tablecloth. A man has obviously just been here, and we can see a piece of his life, his tastes, his way of life and habits. How masterfully the author showed us the presence of a person in the picture, who hurried to leave without finishing breakfast.
A number of paintings evoke deep feelings and sympathy, which only the owner of the visual vector can feel. For example, when he examines the tragedy of the life of a young bride, who is married off to a wealthy elderly gentleman in the painting by V. V. Pukireva "Unequal marriage". The wedding … The young bride has doom in her eyes, a limp hand, from which a candle is about to fall. This image evokes sympathy and emotional experiences. It is clear that she does not want to marry without love. For her, this is grief. The sad face of a young girl, the position of her hands - everything speaks of the tragedy she is experiencing.
Such works are close and understandable to the viewer, they reveal the soul and allow one to feel emotions. The ability to compassion shows his best sides, and he unconsciously searches in an art gallery for precisely such works that convey the whole gamut of feelings - from enjoying color and form to empathizing with the heroes of the picture.
A visual visitor to the gallery is easy to recognize by external signs, he has an active facial expression, a warm, speaking look, expressive eyes. Everything he feels can be seen on his face: joy or sadness, admiration or disappointment. Aesthetic pleasure, emotions and feelings - this is what the spectator is looking for, and for all this he goes to an art gallery.
A strange picture - what is it about?
Now let's go to another hall with the once fashionable currents of "surrealism" and "abstractionism". These trends in art at one time brought new ideas about painting into society. They are associated with an ideological search, an attempt to look at painting differently.
The surrealists in their works suggested a somewhat absurd and contradictory combination of images. It is believed that this direction has developed under the great influence of the theory of psychoanalysis of Freud. The goal of the surrealists' creativity was a spiritual elevation above the material world, displacing standard concepts, familiar logic and laws from their works. In these works, ordinary objects are depicted in an unconventional way (for example, the clock hanging on the branches of a tree in S. Dali's paintings) or there are unreal objects, creatures and images. Bright representatives of surrealism - S. Dali, P. Picasso.
Another, no less interesting direction is abstractionism. This artistic direction was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. It is characterized by a refusal to reproduce the forms of the real world. On such canvases, we see a geometric image of people or nature, a combination of spots and strokes. Famous abstractionists - K. Malevich (author of the painting "Black Square"), V. Kandinsky.
This is how a deep semantic superstructure appears over the traditional approach to painting. In this work, as a rule, artists manifest themselves who, in addition to the anal-visual combination of vectors, also have a dominant sound vector. The main difference between the works of these artists from the classical canvases of visual painters without a sound vector was the use of new forms and methods of writing: unreal images embodying deep meanings (surrealizable) or abstract forms (abstractionism).
In ancient times, the presence of a sound vector in a person determined his specific role: he guarded the flock at night when everyone was asleep. The main task of the sound engineer was to listen attentively to the silence of the savannah, in order to hear a creeping wild beast and warn the flock of danger. The owners of the sound vector, who spent their nights alone and in silence, are characterized by immersion in themselves, thinking about the meaning of life, searching for the unconscious, detachment from what is happening outside. Material for a sound person is not interesting, his path is the world of spiritual searches. He has a powerful abstract intelligence that helps to comprehend deep meanings.
There is no beauty of nature in the paintings of sound artists. On them, we will not see emotional images of a person or a scattering of juicy fruits. Many viewers will pass by these pictures, perhaps, only after skimming over them, because these plots often do not carry aesthetic beauty and emotional experiences.
Sound perception of painting
For the sound engineer, the works of P. Picasso and S. Dali are just what you need. Through the painting, encrypted symbols, images and forms are transmitted that are understandable to both the sound artist and the lover of strange pictures. The sound engineer, like no one else, is able to recognize the deep meanings laid down by the author. He understands "Black Square" by K. Malevich and "Poet or half past three" by Marc Chagall.
These canvases make the sound artist live the same as the artist, but he can also look for his depths in these works. Such pictures "open the cranium" and penetrate into his soul. A picture saturated with metaphysical meaning clings to the subcortex and does not let go until it grasps the desired meaning. The sound engineer may not be aware of how the author of the work is talking to him on the same wavelength. Outwardly, it seems that the sound person just looks at the picture for a long time, but in fact he no longer examines it, a whole whirlwind of thoughts rushes through his head at this time.
It is easy to find a soundman in the gallery, of course, near the paintings of P. Picasso or K. Malevich. Outwardly, he is restrained, silent, his face is amim. Maybe dressed casually, because for him this is not the main thing. He, unlike the spectator, does not look for views or details in the picture. His desire is to comprehend the meaning. The sound engineer is a lover of silence, therefore the museum halls for him are an ideal place for reflection: there you can withdraw into yourself, having received a “sound charge”.
Favorite painting is a mirror of the soul
System-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan helps us to see famous works of painting with different eyes, to reveal the meanings inherent in them, to understand what the author was trying to convey to us, to determine what properties of the psyche he possesses. And not only this. With knowledge of system-vector psychology, one can understand the mental characteristics of people who choose certain paintings, are connoisseurs of different types of art.
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