Connoisseurs and judges

Judge Yevtukhov, referring to the opinion of experts, appreciated the painting "Bad and Good Man" at 5000 rubles, but this, of course, is the initial price. Art critic Volodin, who part -time works as a prosecutor, is much closer to the truth. During the process, he raised the bet, saying that "works similar to children's drawings are like an apartment in Moscow," but this is far from the limit. There were cases when “Karakuli of dolphins, monkeys were evaluated,” Volodin added, forgetting to mention the chicken that draws with his paws. Insulting the artist, but also seducing potential buyers.

I think we should talk about millions in hard currency. This is such a picture. Such an artist. Such an auction. Such auctionists.

In general, there is some kind of injustice in the fact that it is customary to scold politicians and law enforcement officers who are imposing their views on art. From the point of view of purely artistic, they can probably be mistaken. But how these people know how to advertise the works that they have in the eye! Hulia or praise. Free or involuntarily. What, of course, the true concern for the creators is manifested.

Say, the head of the party and government arrives in the arena, examines the paintings, fierce and says that all this is the daub that pidaras painted. Roughly expresses, yes. But behind his miserable rudeness hides a deep interest in their creativity and a delicate guardian concern for future earnings. For everyone who saw and called at that exhibition the old man, from now on, bear the proud name of the "abstracts" and glorified. And even during life.

Or take other artists who exhibited their paintings in the Moscow wasteland. On the wasteland where the authorities soon fitted a bulldozer, who literally plowed the souls of the gathered spectators, including Western correspondents. Well, who, in fact, is interesting pictures on which the bulldozer did not pass? On the contrary, from the moment the Gabists cordoned off the wasteland and the shrew driver launched the engine, the painting rose sharply in price. For these were no longer just portraits and still lifes with cans, but the canvases that have seen blood pressure. It was already real painting.

The name of the janitor Sotov, as long as his picture hung on the fence or in the apartment of the opposition Navalny, was known only in the circle of the narrowest specialists. The people lying under the fence ignored the artist’s work. Tens of thousands of disagreements did not know anything about Sotov, since the opposition Navalny was under house arrest. And only on the day when the RF IC initiated the case of the disappearance of the picture from the fence and the best investigators of the country, as well as the FSB operatives, having appeared at four in the morning in the apartment of the disagreement, began the search for criminals, the artist’s name thundered throughout the country. And the Russians learned how a bad person differs from the good.

Here the auction began, although some observers denoted the situation with a different word. But it was a real auction, and almost with every message about the progress of the investigation and the details of the trial, the picture became more expensive. True, the artist himself claimed that his creation was not worth more than a hundred, and no one had ever paid him this hundred, but the investigators and prosecutors quickly convinced the simple -minded painter. Or they were intimidated for his own good, promising to punish for hanging paintings on the fence if he does not want to experience moral suffering. Apparently, his commercial vein was completely absent, which can not be said about the prosecutors.

As a result, Sotov overshadowed all his brothers in the workshop. Well, to what Rafael was dreaming that Bastrykin himself would be concerned about his fate? What Shishkin could dream that because of his bears would sharply worsen the already nasty relationship between the chef of the UK and the Prosecutor General? The Deputy Prosecutor will ask Bastrykin not to suck him all crap instead of criminal cases, he will roll the complaint to the Seagull, and the seagull will stand up for the subordinate - which Deineke can describe this battle?

Nevertheless, the case was aroused and came to the trial, during which the prosecutor remembered the dolphins and monkeys, capable of small masterpieces, and a verdict sounded . One of the abductors, an employee of the Corruption Fund Georgy Alburov, is found guilty and will now serve 240 hours on public work. Another villain, an analyst of the same fund Nikita Kulachenkov, is while hiding from retaliation.

True, a question arises, which in all centuries worried the connoisseurs of the beautiful: and who will get the "fabulous sum" declared by the prosecutor for the picture? Will her court return to the victim or dive in favor of the state to sell this treasure at some foreign auction, as happened more than once in our long-suffering history? Do we hear something so stunning during the appeal process that the cost of the picture will reach completely sky-high heights? Will it help Russia in the era of sanctions or will a judge with a prosecutor drink money? Will the artist write something new and how much will it cost now, given his reputation? Will his work will now sneak with the fences and what terms will be given for this?

All these questions are not idle. Important for Russia, if you again recall the economic crisis. As well as for the Fund for the fight against corruption, whose activities only seem hopeless, since the thieves are walking in the wild, and punish the most Navalny and his associates. The case of a "bad and good person" forever imprinted in the history of the country, and grateful descendants will solve it for a long time, and with it and the era, generous for such matters. They will comprehend the mysterious picture finally, they will appreciate, they will figure it out. Who is bad, who is good.