3763. What Ivan heard was this: “These equestrian statues
that grace the squares and parks of our great cities have only one purpose, and
that is to glorify the institution of Monarchy, of absolutist government. The
idiots who create these things probably never think to themselves that the
personages they depicted were not great at all but were truly a burden to
mankind.”
3764. “They are obsessed with the realism of the details of
their works, and pride themselves that a horses hoof is anatomically correct,
or that a cape or a boot is rendered accurately down the eyelets and stitches,
and all the time they never stop to consider that the entire construction is an
embarrassing falsehood.”
3765. “Oh, for the day when these monstrosities can be torn
down, along with the odious institutions they represent.”
3766. In Ivan’s entire life never had he heard the works of
his father or his grandfather criticized. There was criticism in his father’s
workshop however but it was always of a certain type. Often a model in clay was
set up on a revolving stand, and both the students and the master were invited
to offer criticism of the work. These criticisms were often harsh and
emotionally devastating.
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