«Therefore, we will take what is rightfully ours. We will get rid of the dictatorship of profit, the censorship of the rich. We will give the people a voice and present it to the world. People are aware of the power of their own voice and thoughts.»
– Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, civil war film Director
After some time, we will create our own heroes, artists, singers and others, they will be stronger and more talented than all the existing people of art who lived under capitalism. In the meantime, we need the expropriation of art, its socialization. There is nothing wrong with studying and repeating other people's work. But it's one thing to learn and do new things, or develop the old, or show the old better by removing mistakes and taking the best frame with the best image quality. And another thing is to remove the bourgeois remakes with removesthe that everyone hates. Just learning to take the good and do not repeat the mistakes of our opponents.
10 rules of revolutionary creativity
Oleg Kleonov
Oleg Kleonov is an artist and poet, author of the collection "newspaper Pravda in our days", "departure of darkness", "proletarian poem". In January 2020, in his blog, he formulated the rules of revolutionary creativity, which instantly made him famous. Labor & drawing translated this Manifesto about life, work, the Internet, communication, and creativity.
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1. Steal like Communist
Every artist has to answer the question of where they get their ideas from. The revolutionary artist will reply :" I steal them from the rich and give them to the poor." That's all there is to say about it.
Nothing comes out of nowhere and nothing goes anywhere. This means that there are prerequisites for everything, and our task is to develop what is available with talent.
Everything has prerequisites. This was stated in Lenin:
"The prerequisites for the revolution in Russia were the global crisis of capitalism. Our revolution is a prerequisite for the world domination of communism on the entire planet"
(PSS, volume 13, page 666).
Any new project mixes elements of old ideas or just changes one of them. Art schools always show one trick. Draw two parallel lines on a piece of paper:
How many lines are there in the drawing? The first line is visible, the second, but there is also a dark line between them. See? 1 + 1 = 3.
An artist is a collector. Not a speculator, not a dirty merchant who collects everything indiscriminately for profit, but a collector-who purposefully collects only those things that he really loves.
Capitalists say: "Garbage at the entrance – garbage at the exit". This is true, but not always. For example, there is recycling of garbage and waste. From a capitalist trash cheap movie to a more acceptable socialist film of the genre "science fiction trash Thriller with elements of social fiction".
Our task is to learn from the mistakes of capitalists, from their ideas and experience. The best way to do this is to read. Read, read, read, read, read. Textbooks, articles, pictures, diagrams. The more you read, the wider the choice of what will affect you.
Nothing prevents to imitate the bourgeois writers. Look at his works, find out what he read. And read it all. Get to the best in the logical chain that was driven by the Creator when creating his work.
Steal ideas and save them for the future. Carry a notebook everywhere. Write in books. Rip pages out of magazines and create collages from them in your sketchbook. Steal like an artist a Communist.
2. You are what you do
This was stated by Che Guevara in his book " Revolution on a motorcycle»:
«Yesterday's orphans are now our soldiers. They grew up without fathers, so they found them on the streets, in history. To some extent, this was a gift for us, because they saw all the horrors of capitalism.
In fact, a person is what they let into their life. You are the sum of what affects you. As Marx said, "we are created and shaped by what we love, what we hope for, and what we sincerely desire"
They had to choose the role models that children usually find in their parents. Cruelty filled their ideas about the ideal world that we were going to build for everyone…».
Last year, there was a video on the Internet of a Korean artist-designer who was responsible for the design of the stadium in the city of Pyongyang and its decoration during the state holiday of sports.
Speaking about creativity, she said exactly what allows so many people to postpone their projects: "If you don't know who you are and what you live for or what you believe in, then you don't live, you exist. Your life has no meaning, and you are not valued by yourself, your neighbors, or the state."
If I had been waiting to understand "who I am" and "who we are", I would not have been" creative", I would still be sitting around trying to find myself, instead of just starting to do something. I know from experience that it is in the process of work that we understand who we are.
You're ready. Start working.
Maybe you're scared. This is a biological mechanism, the same is in technology. It's called "protection against the fool". TV-type equipment is specially designed so that a stupid person does not break it. It's the same with you. You are deliberately afraid to do something strange, because nature does not know whether you are a fool or not. That's why the defense mechanism sends out fear so that you think 10 times before doing something strange, new, and potentially dangerous.
Confidence in success and a clear plan can overcome fear. Help from your friends will give you more courage. But there is another way.
Namely, the game. Let drawing be like football or chess for you. You draw, it may be bad, it may be weak. But no one will judge you. And you like it, you're having fun. What if you do something right? And then everyone will praise you.
Patti Smith's book "Just kids" is indicative. This is the story of how two friends came to new York to learn how to draw as professional artists.
Faced with the horrors of capitalism, mob violence, lynching of blacks, unemployment and starvation, they still tried to change the world for the better through their drawings. Do you know how they did it? They behaved like artists. The humorous moment of the book – Patty and her friend, dressed as tramps, went to Washington Square, where there are always a lot of people. One old lady stared at them and said to her husband: "Take a picture of them. I think they are artists." "No – "he said, shaking his head," they're just little dweebs."
The whole world is a field for experiments. For creativity, you also need a laboratory, a suit, and knowledge. The lab is your workspace. It can be a Studio, a Desk, or a sketchbook. A suit is your work clothes – special pants that make you feel comfortable, house Slippers that you write in, or that funny hat that inspires you. And knowledge is power. Time is also important. An hour here, an hour there.