Green monkey

ABOUT THE WORK



Abstract: Bashkiria: the most expensive monkey "lives" in Ufa. It brings good luck! On the eve of the upcoming monkey year, interest in primates has increased dramatically. Store shelves are full of all sorts of Souvenirs-monkeys. The range of prices for them is also wide: from chocolate for 13 rubles to porcelain for 70 thousand. Want to buy a live specimen as a gift? There are some. For 80 thousand rubles, the breeder offers to buy small monkeys for home and office. Growing only the size of a hand and reaching a weight of only up to 350 grams, they do not take up much space and do not carry the destructive power of their larger counterparts. They live up to 16 years, the seller promises. But it turned out that Ufa is probably the most expensive symbol of the year-the green monkey. This is the name of the painting by Ufa artist Alexander Vanzin. The name is not heard by a wide audience. But his work can be seen on one of the most popular online galleries. 15-30 thousand rubles – - for these prices, you can buy his still lifes, portraits, and landscapes. One picture stands out from this row – it shows a dark green monkey eating a watermelon. A Cobra creeps up on her. Under the work is the price-no less than 3 966 066 rubles! Was the monkey encrusted with precious stones? We got through to the author. - This is an unusual picture. The monkey itself came to me in a dream and told me how to write it, - Alexander VANZIN was stunned. "It was no accident, of course. Like any artist, thoughts and ideas in the head are first saturated, modeled, before they get on paper. In a dream, ordering often occurs. And the main character came to me and told me in detail how to depict it, what other details should be in the picture, how they are located. But the most interesting thing is that the monkey named the exact price, how much it should cost-3,966,066 rubles. And not a penny less or more. Only then, she said, will it bring good luck to the owner who will purchase the painting. Worked on the picture Vanzin three years, the same time it hangs on sale. In the story, the monkey came from the world of the jungle to the world of people. I found a table set with fruit. But it turned out that there was danger waiting for her - the Indian Cobra was ready to attack. "The point is that you probably shouldnt invade a world that isnt your own." There are temptations and dangers, not everyone can overcome them, - the author explains. A painting with a provocative price often attracts the attention of potential buyers, including, according to the artist, collectors from Beijing are interested in it. But no one has decided to buy it yet. - There is no special equipment there. But I have become so attached to the monkey that if someone decides to buy it, I dont even know if I can part with it, " says the artist. - It really brings good luck! As soon as this picture appeared in my life, I finally began to exhibit, and my personal life began to improve. Now the picture is on display in Birsk. In January, it is planned to move it to Ufa. Aigul MUSINA, Bashkir regional Supplement to the newspaper " Arguments and facts"

Year of creation: 2013

Technique: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 66x74cm

Excerpt from the book about the artist Vanzin AP and his works.
About "Green monkey" is a painting by the artist Maquisard.

Excerpt from the book " Magnificent masters of the brush."

An interesting story of the creation of the painting by the artist Alastair Makvizardom "Green monkey". Physicist Niels Bohr dreamed of the structure of the atom, chemist Mendeleev periodic system, painter Makvizardu " Green monkey "(Makvizard, who does not know-a pseudonym of the artist, in the world he has a surname of Dutch roots, now transformed in Russia under the usual phonetic, local syllable and now sounds like Vanzin. Van Gogh, van Zyn, doesnt it look like it? Some people perceive the name worn by them as Chinese, in China there are also many similar) which in his dream told how to draw it, called him the exact price for which it must be sold (the price of the picture is 3966066 rubles) and many more interesting facts about which the artist should not tell anyone. The monkey promised to bring good luck to all its owners. And predict the next owners of the picture, in their dreams, their future. To the artist she prophesied extraordinary happiness. Will be showered generously with gifts of fate. He will be loved by a large audience of admirers of his work, the paintings will be bought for unusually large money - as masterpieces. He himself will find fame around the world as a great artist. Will get out of poverty, will find prosperity and tranquility. Acquire a private island with runway and large aircraft which had long dreamed of, but the most important will be engaged in charity. There is much suffering and misery in the World. The purpose and mission of mankind in the universe according to the narrative of the mystical green monkey to nullify human grief and the guide in these endeavors are some people who come with insight (talent), which they must use for the benefit of all people. The artist had the temerity to tell about his dream to some people he knew, who told others, then the story was picked up by the newspapermen who were curious to sensations and then the agents selling paintings who wanted to make money, and the story began to spread like an avalanche through all imaginable sources and channels of information. Began to blame the artist in a specially organized public relations, on which the artist reacted peculiar - hid the painting in a vault and never shows the audience can now personally see painting exhibitions (an interesting fact if it were declared that the picture of Alastair Maquisard "Green monkey" will be shown or represented by whatever name, some sort of art exhibition or the gallery, people came to watch, take a look at the picture, trying to touch the paintings now considered that touching patterns can be fortunate. And the canvas is placed higher or put a fence that would not damage it. A team of assistants furnished the event, each show, in an original way, for example, brought a living prototype depicted on the canvas, an African macaque, which especially amused children with their grimaces, who visited with their parents the exhibition of paintings). The picture has not yet been bought, but consumer interest in it continues to grow. It (picture) incognito, and in absentia are interested in two major art dealers from the capital of China-Beijing and a large city in the United States, are constantly interested in what is called among art dealers " are a picture or canvas." According to some experts wrong side of gallery and sales of paintings, painting artist Vansina he Maquisard "Green monkey" big players in the art market have noticed and appreciated a kind, rare talent of an artist self-taught, and enable them not even taking any part, rise in the price of the acclaimed canvas, and even give the opportunity to resell several times to create the history of the painting, and then buy a solid money using a well-known auction, with the intention to turn the picture in the investment project, i.e. to invest large amounts of money, because paintings never cheaper, on the contrary, their price only grows with time. Now experts assure, at the start, as sprint runners sits a lot of people, small dealers of paintings and waiting for the moment to rush into the race and the first to buy a picture of the artist "Green monkey". As soon as a large auction publicly shows interest in the picture, all these dealers will "tear the picture apart" in their hands, that would get a big jackpot on the resale, and while waiting for the moment and promises, interest from large trading platforms. And suddenly the picture is a blown dummy and small dealers do not want to lose 3960 666 rubles. The artist himself, in his words, does not want to part with his "Green monkey", probably believed in its magical magical properties. In an interview with a correspondent of one of the famous Newspapers, he said that all the predictions of the monkey he dreamed come true. He began to exhibit a lot at different and even significant, well-known exhibitions, periodically pass his own large-scale shows, he gradually becomes a famous artist and does not know whether he will be able to sell his mascot - the painting "Green monkey", if he is offered the price indicated by the monkey 3690666 rubles (having the opportunity to communicate with an unusual artist, The artist intends to bargain, - But according to the prophecy of the animal, I must spend all the money that I get in excess of the specified monkey on good deeds, otherwise happiness from them will not be. - Any suggestions for the painting, I asked the burning question Vansina where he publicly never answers. - Yes there was an offer to sell for five million, (!!!) but it turned out that it was a hoax, or the person was inadequate, and did not understand, seriously he wanted to buy or not. But he insisted that he had a lot of money, and immediately, on the move, offered five million, although no one bargained with him. Money is not big says the author of the picture, in the future according to the plan of the monkey more interesting work, at higher prices. Paintings will impress not only the skill and charisma of the plot but also provocative prices. The audience will guess the provocation of another picture? PR? Or the Providence of the "Green monkey"? For a year or more in the Studio of the artist is a large canvas (the fabric was chosen specifically for another famous work, it is two hundred years old, previously it was a flour bag, the artist seeks to write as a master of the 18th century and even selects the materials for this appropriate) on which to be written "Red monkey". But it is not an allegory, as will be seen by some one of the formations of society. It will not be a parody of the social system. - This genre picture is - told me the artist, foresight monkeys, I have to write in collaboration with another artist, the price will exhibit APB, and generally as advised Basica (so affectionately calls his monkey painter) paintings I have to sell less than one thousand (euros or dollars), and the work in which I see success, to put a million rubles. - In Russia, - says the artist there is a proverb-the Fool Dumka richer. But as would there not was, I paintings already notm exhibiting for three thousands of rubles, as was before, and firmly assure gallery owners sell not less than for sixty, and galleries agree. - And how will you share the money with the co-author of the red monkey, what will you spend? I asked the artist. "Im going to Antarctica to see the continent and The icebergs of cosmic beauty and try to draw them. Plans many predictions many, money until there is no, and until I need not to believe in slumbers, and work work and work. (You read an excerpt from the book about the artist, which is now being compiled and written in a team of volunteers, which will contribute to the promotion of the artists work in a large audience of painting lovers)

Sincerely, art agent, artist rose Silver. (Rose Gold)