Exhibition "Russian Folk Wood Carving" Automatic translate

From November 22 (without opening) in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 103, second floor), the exhibition “Russian folk wood carving” from the museum’s collections will open.

Carved wood products have existed since ancient times. People decorated their homes, household items with ornaments handed down from generation to generation along with skills and carving techniques.

The exhibition presents works of Russian carving crafts from the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts: Bogorodskaya sculpture, Shemogoda carving on birch bark, Abramtsevo-Kudrino carving. Each of the crafts has its own characteristics in manufacturing technology and stories.

Bogorodskaya sculpture and toy is one of the oldest Russian crafts, which developed from the 18th century. in s. Bogorodskoye, belonging to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The craft originated in a peasant environment, but developed under the influence of the posad culture, under the influence of porcelain plastics, book illustrations, folk popular prints, and works of painters. The products of the masters had a decorative character, which determined the themes and images: figures of animals, fairy-tale and epic heroes, peasants. The plots were popular with the public, recognizable, realistic. When creating each figure, accurate observations were shown that were important for characterizing the image. The thread was carried out using a special knife.

The collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts presents the work of A.I. Shishkina, V.F. Balaev.

In the XIX century. The craft of birch-bark art was developed in the vicinity of Veliky Ustyug, the ancient center of various crafts. Geometric patterns of intersecting stripes, triangles, rhombuses, squares, and circular motifs are characteristic of works made of slotted birch bark; floral ornament of smoothly curving stalks-runners with rosettes and leaves. The compositions are based on the alternation of light birch bark on a dark or color lining. Material and manufacturing techniques involve calm, smooth lines.

The center of carving for birch bark was the village of Kurovo-Navolok, and the ancestors of the fishery were the family of Veprev peasants. In 1935, the craftsmen were united in the “Artist” artel at the Shemogodsky furniture factory. Their works are distinguished by delicate dynamic patterns with lush plant motifs with a wide range of movement of the runner, from which small shoots leave, ending with oval leaves with thin cuttings, double leaves and trefoils, multi-leaf rosettes. Figures of people, animals, birds were interwoven into plant patterns. The collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts presents two works by masters from the hereditary family of Veprev carvers.

The art of decorating household items found its continuation in the works of masters of Abramtsevo-Kudrino flat-relief carvings. In the 1880s In Abramtsevo, the estate of the businessman and philanthropist S. I. Mamontov, near Moscow, under the guidance of E. D. Polenova, a joiner’s workshop was opened, in which carvers from neighboring villages studied and worked. Household items collected by E. D. Polenova on expeditions served as examples for craftsmen. A special style of ornamental carving was formed in the workshop, combining flat-relief carvings with geometric ones. Products carvers - buckets, caskets, salt shakers, decorative dishes, covered with rhythmic floral patterns, features a variety of tinting, emphasizing the natural beauty of wood. Examples of floral ornaments for carvers were not only carved peasant products and home decor, but also ornamental screensavers of old-printed books.

The exhibition will run until January 21, 2018, at the address: ul. Lenin, 103.