The Birth of Venus3 surrealism painting by George Grie

The Birth of Venus3 surrealism painting by George Grie

The Birth of Venus3

WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT "art," most often they are referring to Fine Art. What we see when we look at Fine Art are ideologies and institutions that predate mass-media, mass-market culture. THE artist has usually used one of two methods. He has begun with an idea and then selected some specific object to represent his idea, or he has looked upon an object in such a way as to see its ideal significance. In one case we see his idea objectified, in the other the object is idealized. These methods are Classicism and Romanticism in the history of the arts.
A magic moment I remember:
I raised my eyes and you were there.
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that's beautiful and rare.

I pray to mute despair and anguish
To vain pursuits the world esteems,
Long did I near your soothing accents,
Long did your features haunt my dreams.

Time passed- A rebel storm-blast scattered
The reveries that once were mine
And I forgot your soothing accents,
Your features gracefully divine.

In dark days of enforced retirement
I gazed upon grey skies above
With no ideals to inspire me,
No one to cry for, live for, love.

Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up- you again are there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

A Magic Moment I Remember. Poem by Alexander Pushkin

1994 year, Oil x Canvas, 81x100 centimeters, St. Petersburg, signed as Y. Gribanovsky
Unknown location