Диагональная лягушка

Chto vse-taki obshchego estʹ u stolʹ raznykh napravleniĭ chelovecheskoĭ dei͡atelʹnosti, kak literatura, muzyka, izobrazitelʹnoe iskusstvo? Veroi͡atno, stremlenie vzi͡atʹ nekiĭ fakt bytii͡a libo soznanii͡a, dostupnyĭ chuvstvenno ili intellektualʹno, chtoby soobshchitʹ o nem, neskolʹko perevrav, no cherez ėto pereviranie chem-to dopolniv - esli, konechno, proizvedenie udalosʹ.Proshche govori͡a, samye raznye vidy iskusstva mogut zhitʹ parallelʹno, no ikh vsegda budet rodnitʹ odin instrument - metafora. Tak, po kraĭneĭ mere, schitaet khudozhnik, muzykant, a s nedavnikh por eshche i praktikui͡ushchiĭ prozaik Viktor Melamed.Obraz diagonalʹnoĭ li͡agushki avtor odolzhil u pionera i veterana t͡sifrovogo iskusstva Kai͡a Krauze, zametivshego: "Khoroshai͡a analogii͡a podobna diagonalʹnoĭ li͡agushke". Ottalkivai͡asʹ ot ėtogo obraza, Melamed vystraivaet svoego roda traktat (ili antitraktat, ėto s kakogo ugla posmotretʹ) o, kak legko dogadatʹsi͡a, metafore v iskusstve.No delaet ėto tak, chto kniga o diagonalʹnoĭ li͡agushke sama stanovitsi͡a diagonalʹnoĭ li͡agushkoĭ, opisyvai͡ushcheĭ svoimi pryzhkami zigzagi tvori͡ashchego soznanii͡a, skachushcheĭ ot sosredotochennogo issledovanii͡a metafory trenirovki k otvlechennym rassuzhdenii͡am ob iskusstvennom intellekte, ot sopostavlenii͡a tvorcheskikh ustanovok Sezanna, Brodskogo i Germana Lukomnikova (v polʹzu pervogo) k dzen-buddistskim teorii͡am i praktikam."Talant - ėto slovo-topor. Polozhiv ego v kotel, gde varitsi͡a tvorcheskai͡a individualʹnostʹ i unikalʹnyĭ i͡azyk khudozhnika, my dobavli͡aem obrazovatelʹnyĭ opyt, zritelʹskiĭ opyt, zhiznennyĭ opyt, osobennosti tela i myshlenii͡a, sot͡sialʹnui͡u sredu, sklonnostʹ k igre, nevrozy, opyt predʺi͡avlenii͡a k svoeĭ tvorcheskoĭ rabote vysokikh standartov kachestva, vnimanie k ni͡uansam, konsistentnostʹ, upertostʹ - i vykidyvaem talant k cherti͡am sobachʹim".Kniga soderzhit mnozhestvo uprazhneniĭ dli͡a samostoi͡atelʹnogo vypolnenii͡a v t͡seli͡akh obshchego ėsteticheskogo razvitii͡a.

What do such different areas of human activity as literature, music, and visual arts have in common? Probably, the desire to take a certain fact of being or consciousness, accessible sensually or intellectually, in order to communicate it, somewhat distorting it, but through this distortion supplementing it with something - if, of course, the work succeeded.Simply put, a variety of art forms can live in parallel, but they will always share one instrument — a metaphor. That, at least, is the opinion of the artist, musician, and more recently, the practicing novelist Victor Melamed.The author borrowed the image of a diagonal frog from the pioneer and veteran of digital art, Kai Krause, who remarked: "A good analogy is like a diagonal frog." Based on this image, the Melamed builds a kind of treatise (or an anti-treatise, from which angle to look) about, as it is easy to guess, metaphor in art.But he does it in such a way that the book about the diagonal frog itself becomes a diagonal frog, describing the zigzags of creative consciousness with its jumps, jumping from a concentrated study of the metaphor of training to abstract discussions about artificial intelligence, from comparing the creative attitudes of Cezanne, Brodsky and German Lukomnikov (in favor of the former) to Zen Buddhist theories and practices."Talent is an axe word. By putting him in the cauldron where the artist's creative personality and unique language are brewed, we add educational experience, spectator experience, life experience, body and mind features, social environment, penchant for playing, neuroses, experience of presenting high quality standards to our creative work, attention to nuances, consistency, stubbornness — and we throw out talent to hell with it."The book contains many exercises for self-study for general aesthetic development.