Аннотация: MMMCCCLIII. The birth of an artist. A story. - September 2, 2023.
The birth of an artist. A story.
René Doré created advertising drawings.
He looked at own works and remembered the words of his friend, the writer Jacques Gluck: "Tell me, René Doré, how do you plan to get out of the crowd of obscure losers?"
Pani Bonchevski entered the workshop of René Doré, surrounded by the delicate aroma of perfume.
- Yesterday I visited at an exhibition of African art of the golden age! What a strength!
René Doré showed her his new works.
- Very nice, - she said reluctantly. And she left ... fragrant, sonorous, melodious and disappointed.
René Doré fell on the couch.
He heard the voice of the writer Jacques Gluck:
- Can you announce the creation of a new creative style?
- I created a new style?
- I will compose two or three clever articles, where I will inform our "elite" that you have created a new style of painting. For example: a portrait of a colonel. The background is blue and gold, on it there are five huge galloons, in one corner of the picture there is a horse, in the other - crosses. Will you undertake, René Doré, to paint 120 such portraits in half a year?
- Well, I will try! But I'm not a master of chatting.
- Every time you are asked to explain something, direct a cloud of tobacco smoke in the face of a curious person and say simple words: "Have you ever seen a river flow?"
René Doré heard about the Beatles. But he didn't read, that some of the Beatles' biographers claimed the band's success was based on the 10,000-hour principle. These biographers claimed that in the Beatles' career they saw the magic number leading to mastery: 10,000 hours.
René Doré set to work with enthusiasm. He got carried away. He wrote far more than 120 works. He worked a total of more than 10,000 hours. He began to appear unusual portraits.
These portraits resembled the facial expression of the winged goddess from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
The faces of the people in the portraits were distorted by fear and despair. But they had the determination to go forvard despite everything.
René Doré presented his best works for the exhibition.
The exhibition was a huge success. Charming, fragrant, melodiously rolling out a sonorous "r", pani Bonchevski was constantly near her idol.
A brilliant critic who came to the exhibition asked René Doré questions about his work.
René Dore was silent for a particularly long time, then, releasing in the face of the critic a huge cloud of tobacco smoke, said majestically:
- Have you seen, my dear, how the river flows?
- Superbly said! It's fabulous!
A well-known art dealer promised René Doré to buy 100 paintings from him every six months.
René Dore only released a huge cloud of tobacco smoke in the face of the art dealer.
After the completion of the triumphal exhibition, the artist Rene Doré and the writer Jacques Gluck were left alone.
Jacques Gluck laughed:
- Well, old man, - Jacques Gluck said, - did we deftly trick them?
René Doré looked thoughtfully at own paintings.
Jacques Gluck continued to laugh.
- Don't be stupid! René Doré said.
- I am stupid? Yes, we have succeeded in the most wonderful trick since Bixiou!
René Doré was silent for a moment, then, exhaling a cloud of tobacco smoke, he said:
- Do you know how the time goes, how the time is running? Do you know how the time is moving?
Note:
The story was written by the author on the basis of André Maurois's novel "The Birth of a Celebrity" (1919) [André Maurois "La Naissance d'un maître"].
September 2, 2023 22:21
Translation from Russian into English: September 2, 2023 23:45
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