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If you admire a work box art and even fine lines on black background abundantly decorated with gold shading know: before you - a Palekh lacquered miniature. It is based on a long local history of icon painting. Icon painting craft has emerged in the thirties in village Palekh of the Ivanovo area.
Despite the fact that the Church requires to meet accurately each item icon, Palekh artists did it his way of writing faces, figures, landscape elements, buildings, cars, etc. The icons could see some internal details such as furniture, clothing, weapons harness horse. Some of them have remained in the Palekh miniature art painting something changed today creatively.
Palekh painting was not born by chance. Was the result of century old traditions in new historical conditions based on knowledge craft paint icon for many generations. Their methods were rich and varied. From the very beginning Palekh artists had been studying and keeping old traditions of Russian art. So an icon and a product implemented in the spirit of Palekh miniature have much in common. After the Revolution of 1917 when the icon business went into the deepest of declines, Palekh masters tried their hands at the art table wood furnishings, kitchen utensils, toys, dishes, porcelain and glass. As a result, the most interesting was the painting of paper mache boxes that became the black lacquer miniature.
The miniature lacquer painting is executed by the temple in a pulp color -. Palekh painting is based on a combination of three colors red, yellow and green. The Palekh miniatures usually represent characters from real life, literary works, fairy tales, and songs bylinas. They are painted with paint local glossy black background and are known for their delicate design and soft, plenty of shade of gold, and the silhouettes of flattened exact figures, which often cover surface of the lids and sides of the articles in full. Poetic magic of the Palekh characters, decorative landscapes and architecture, and elongated proportions of figures date back to the traditions of icon-painting. The miniatures are usually left with a complicated pattern made with gold dissolved in water regia.
lacquer miniatures are painted in Palekh articles - caskets and boxes, brooches and hairpins for ties, a panel and ashtrays and large number of other small things made of paper mache.
The process of making Palekh articles is as follows: The first operation in development of these gems of folk art is the cardboard cutout. Cardboard strips are coated with flour paste, placed in circular or rectangular molds and press. After the material is given a layer of hot linseed oil. The pieces are delivered carefully reviewed the carpenters. Then, the inner layer is applied Article with a steel spatula. The outside of the articles Palekh lacquer is painted black. The interior is painted with red lacquer. The final operation before painting: about seven layers of transparent oil varnish is applied to the outside and within the article. Each applied layer is dried in the oven for 9 hours at 90 ° C.
Items are ready to be delivered to the artists. The artist's work begins with preparation of the paint. In Palekh the paints are mixed with egg emulsion. The yolk of the egg white separately, is returned to the shell where you add a mixture of water and vinegar. Then the emulsion was stirred with a special brush. Before painting Article, the artist is inspired by the design. Then, the composition is described in the white lead with a fine squirrel brush and colors are applied then in strict succession. The work of the miniature painter requires not only creative inspiration, but much care and precision so the Palekh painters frequently make use of a magnifying glass. When the painting is more, the artist begins the work of gold. The gold must be polished to give it the necessary shine. After signing the article, the artist covers it with oil and hand-polished clearcoat.
The village of Palekh is situated 65 km east of the city of Ivanovo in Paleshka-edge of the river, which flows between forested hills with leaves. In the 15th century was a land of Vladimir Susdal and was one of the first centers of icon ancient art. In the ages 17 and 18 craftsmen Palekh grew to become the most famous throughout the art of the icon. They developed a unique style distinguishes identifiable by the temperature of saturated fine line drawing gold of their own. These works of art were valued by the depth of the images, the subtlety of color placement, their intricate attention to the smallest detail as well as ornamental design for fairytale-like. Palekh artists are universally regarded as the most highly trained Russian miniature painters. Masterful technique and discipline of the ancient art of icon painting is easily seen in the works of several artists.
Luxury features the art of Palekh wooden table, painted miniatures Mstyora can be seen online Art Store site. It's amazing that what started as a true folk tradition in the last hundred years is still thriving and remains basically true to its roots, although more organized scale.

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Will Nilson, Art News Department of online Art shop, 2007.Online art gift shop suggest art gift ideas for your friends and home interior design! Here you can view unique art collections of lacquered miniatures of Palekh and Mstiora and art wood tableware and buy any liked wood gift of art.

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