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Free Format
The Concept
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"- When I was reading your "Free Format" booklet, I tried to imagine the other Russian landscapes,
like its European part, in that form, but still couldn't, whereis for Far East this is so harmoniously...
From the interview with Sergey and Yelena Emets.
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Straight angle of a picture is the result of our everyday fixation of mind, of our square-shaped view the world. We are accustomed to it from our birth. It seems that we just don't know how to do it in the other way. We should not only look, but SEE, and that's rather complicated. Our life is full of wonderful shapes, sometimes we get a sense of freedom and magic, but when we start painting a picture, we almost forget about it and lock up our world in a square form. If we start analysing this process, we'll come to a conclusion that our eye moves inside the square-shaped picture in a certain direction which is always predictable. This is the basic idea of the modern theory of composition. But here we would like to propose our own vision of the form, the free format idea. It comes from the nature itself, from our own experience of traveling to the Far East. It is based on hundreds of exercises, painted right in the heart of the wild nature, and on analysing the streams of its energy. Mountains and hills of the wild, the rivers, volcanoes, woods and their shapes surrounding us all over are numerous. Man almost dissolves in this beauty, and its really impossible to reflect the world eternity in a usual square format. If you wish to reflect almost all you see in one picture, you should change the laws of the composition, give it more freedom, and in such a way make it more true to life. It doesn't mean that we want to abolish the square format as it is. It should work for our everyday life. But when an artist feels uncomfortable in the narrow form of the usual format, another choice is Free Format, the real art of the future, and that will change his life forever. This is the brand new vision of life, giving us the wonderful power of the magic flight over the whole world, flight over the eternity.
Sergey Emets has patented his principle
of Free Format in Russian Federal Agency on Patents and Trade Marks (patent No.48610). A Place to Step Forward ***
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