The frame itself is the scene frame, which is very appropriate in this film. How to show the chaos in the spiritual world of artists who fled to the other side during the Cold War? It seems that text is not the best medium, nor is painting, because painting is often the result of standing in front of the frame and meditating day after day, but relatively speaking, the intuitive images it presents contain certain visual information. In this film, which focuses on painting, the inversion and reincarnation between two life orders and value systems happen to a person who travels from East Germany to West Germany. In the GDR, he realized that "socialist realism", understood as dogma, was not his favorite art form, but in the GDR, would everything work out? No, pop art, conceptual art, performance art... It seems like a dazzling sky, but if it is not endogenous in the life process of a creator, it is false art. Just like the example he gave, a series of numbers is a series of The number, only after it becomes the number of the lottery ticket, does it sparkle and become a sacred and orderly set of numbers and symbols.
Art is about finding the inevitability above these conceptual creations, driving a nail into one's body that can coexist with the bone. In this respect, "socialist realism" is as random as Pop performance art, and does not automatically have "inevitability" because of a person's defection. The term "work without an author" not only means the disappearance of the author, but also means Compared with the attachment to self-memory, art must be super-individual while becoming a public collective memory. Therefore, the woman in the painting is the mother, the aunt, and his current wife. A child is the childhood self of the Fascist era, and it is also the appearance of the baby in the womb when it grows up. Time is crystallized in the painting. This is something that photos cannot do. Therefore, in the "photo" obtained through documentary photography and projection technology , we found that through the film technique and psychological technique of superimposition, painting has acquired its own "time image". The dual understanding of Pop performance art and dogmatic socialist realism fulfills him, the former tells him how to break the frame, the latter tells him how to draw figures into giant portraits that are multiplied by scale, and letters as if they were printed. Smear on canvas.
Conversely, "socialist realism" may also become a form of autonomy by growing into an unremovable nail in one's life, which is no longer the unconscious creation of nameless "screws". A Pop artist who merely sells the concept of Bourgeois upside down as art is also just an anonymous "screw" of bourgeois aesthetic ideology. Or in Tarkovsky's words: " No one who has ever betrayed his principles can maintain a simple relationship with life. "
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