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Troika. Golikov, Yuri Nikolayevich. 90-s In this essay, we have included, it would seem somewhat detached bytoopisatelstvo masters,

Grew team of Palekh art workshops. First team of artists represented by people arriving from different regions of the country, national regions. Drew them here to good earnings, promotion party administrative ladder, housing and a quiet, peaceful life among the local Palekh, remarkably generosity, confidence, ability to come to the aid of any guest, in difficult circumstances.
The school provided a stipend, lodging, free food, allocated money for clothing. Annually organizes long-distance trips to interesting natural sites, museums, exhibitions.

Talented Palekh icon-painter and miniatyuristMihail P. Vakurov with his wife Paraschiva Alexandrovna. 1900-es. The structure of production in a studio was in the orthodox Soviet traditions. Artists were divided into teams, quite different in composition. There was a shop manager, whose task to extract semi-finished paintings, gold leaf and paints. Was Chief of the artist must organize the creative process of artists, but were appointed to it are far from creative professionals and, therefore, any creative work among the team is not carried out. They demanded only the successes in socialist competition and finished work on a certain amount of money.
Management now vested in the people fully dedicated Leninism and communism. Was introduced strict control over the daily routine. To often late, there were various kinds of disciplinary and moral character. It was established production plan for the artist, which he was obliged to carry out monthly. There was a "Hall of Fame", where hung portraits of the advanced socialist competition, which in the collective, for the eyes, called simply - informers administration. Denunciations were a matter of habit, and therefore no one particularly surprised that the conversation in the team or on delicate political subject immediately became famous bosses. On this path, enlisted men, another student's desk gave its consent or because of some questionable offense, or for ideological, personal and other reasons.
As in Palekh, and not only, but also in other provincial towns and villages in the crisis with food, equipped with provisions for the bus company in Moscow. Lists of people checked personally by the director, and his liking artists he ruthlessly crossed out, despite the fact that the majority were families and children.
Cigarette Outright - Golikov NI 1960. Abducted from the collection in 2007. The same criterion was used and the arts councils, where the estimated cost of works. Often happened. Writes a creative work more than one month, spending enormous strength. He goes to the masters, tips, correct deficiencies. He lives with his family at last money. And now comes the reckoning day. Feedback from colleagues and experienced artists, the work turned out. The meeting ends, introduce the protocol, and the creator does not believe his eyes - such a score, as in ordinary ticky-tacky little things. Live not for that, as quickly as possible to restore spent force no longer exists. As a result of a nervous breakdown, drink and so on. The same technique was used and the distribution of modern housing and other tangible benefits, although the director and his assistants at that time had personal currency bank accounts to buy and bought an apartment in the capital.
N.I. Golikov and S.M. Golikov May 9, 2007. Palekh. What would somehow survive, some of the artists themselves traveled to Moscow, turned in their work in art galleries, and sold to private individuals. But here, sentencing practice quickly found a use. People began to catch with a policemen's doorstep buses. The case came to the compulsion to open briefcases, handbags and produce content for the inspection. And all this without any legal sanctions and the warrants.
Accounted for 90-es. Another political thaw. Crazed painters rushed out of the country, carting away boxes of their own and others' work, the icons. Someone even managed to stay there, to find a good income. On the one hand it somehow improved the material side of human life, on the other - neither of which capacity and creativity can no longer speak. Palekh fishing quickly sliding to the lowest artistic and cultural level for all of its existence. The flow of useless to anyone except visiting businessmen and shopkeepers, the majority of products flooded the domestic and foreign souvenir shops, art shops.
Michael Porfirevi Sokolnikov with Golikov's family . 1960 With today's looting of the main working space - the workshops, broke living link teacher and student. It was stolen a unique library of ancient books and materials on art, donated paleshanam Gorky. Established small industrial base for production boxes, new icons. But, unfortunately, except for labeling "Palekh" these things do not have absolutely nothing of Palekh. The same desire - to earn any means, continues to hold the heads of artists.
The spirit of collective creativity, hard continuous learning and professional development is missing. The vast majority of artisans are visiting people who are totally rejected by the local aura of creativity. The special atmosphere centuries Palekh folk life, with its traditional way, rules, laws they do not understand and alien. They brought in Palekh their shtetl customs, habits, who come into sharp conflict with the local outlook. In the words of the famous and the oldest working 85-year-old coryphaeus Nikolai Ivanovich Golikov:
Nicholas Golikov from artists Nekosovy on Mstera. 2008. - They, visitors and strangers to Palekha people, eyes closed and arranged differently. Do not they see they are not able to think in Palekh.
Art school has lost priceless, unique original founders of Palekh Art. They were simply stolen, using bungling directorate, not contrived to ensure basic protection. No serious academic staff and curriculum.
Modern icon-painting has resulted in blind imitation of the various samples, nothing in common with those with no Palekh ancient painting. Numerous small team of craftsmen - yesterday's students, ply on different regions of the country and give out their artistry on the walls of the church for Palekh school of painting.
But, contrary to total destruction of morals, continue to beat the pure springs Stainless creativity, the story of which we will continue in the next part. Art returns to the family, where it was born ...

By Geoge Golikov