Oleg Kleonov - Steal Like artist Communist

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.

Play until you love it so much that you are ready to give years of your life to this cause.

3. Write a book that you want to read

I'll tell you a short story. In 2013, like many modern Communists, I was a conservative and patriot of my country. I have read many books on the topic of Russia's war with America. I even wanted to write my own book about how Crimea and Eastern Ukraine became part of Russia. And then there was a coup d'etat in Ukraine and something happened that I wanted to write in my book.

The moral of the story is this. It's better to write your own book. And even better, write it in real life, making yourself the main character, performing feats.

An aspiring socialist writer always wonders what he should write about. The Trotskyists tell him: "Write about what you like." The result is often a horror story where nothing interesting happens. Trotskyists are shot, and people are repressed.

Therefore, the best advice is not to write about what you like, but to write about what you should. Write a story that will help you deal with capitalism, hunger, and injustice. We are engaged in creativity, because it helps both the Creator and every good person to live. All fiction is, in fact, advice for people how to live.

The best way to decide what to do is to think about what you should do as a parent to a child, as a relative to a relative, as a soldier to a fellow soldier. Create a picture, looking at which a person will be ashamed of cowardice, hate laziness, respect heroes, glorify science.

In art, comrade, you must love your work. And every picture that you draw should want to see as a spectator, every article should want to read as a reader, every movie should be watched and every song should be listened to.

If what you need to draw and what you want – diverge, it's a disaster. And the trouble is not in the world, but in you. You must love not what you don't need, but what you need. What you like should be useful to you and the working people.

4. Automate automation

It's no secret that the process of writing an article in a notebook and in a computer is very different. Indeed, when we write in Word, we have little time to think about it and there is no opportunity to draw something in the margins, a sort of diagram. Moreover, the text written with a pen in a notebook cannot be erased --">