Amid05

13.02.2022 21:46

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Iam a painter. i like painting more than anything else, except obvious things like food and drink, that all sensible people like. as a painter, i have quite a lot of talent — i'm not sure yet how much — and a fairly complete mastery of most of the technical requirements; that is, i am an instinctive colourist, and my composition is interesting. i have my difficulties, but who does not? i get on fairly well with people, and i ought to be quite as successful as a dozen other painters — but i am not. i never have been since my very first one-man show, when i was discovered by the critics, taken up — and very quickly put down again — and sold out. "sold out" is the just phrase. i was twenty-two after that show. apart from quite a lot of money, the way i understand it, i had one oil painting left, three drawings, and very little common sense, my most valuable remaining possession. the common sense prevented me from believing what the critics said and considering myself a genius, and not only a genius but a painter who would always be able to live by painting exactly what he wanted to paint when he wanted to paint it. i did, however, think that i could probably afford to marry leila, rent my own studio, and stop being a student. but i have never had another show which sold like that first one, although i am a better painter than i was then. my work is as contemporary as any; of course it is; how can anyone intelligent and honest paint behind his time, deliberately or by accident? but more and more critics support what is called action painting and other art, when a painter is trying to be as different from anyone else as he can. anyway, it has been clear ever since that first sell-out show that i have an old way of seeing things and am really an academic перевисти