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If you admire a work of art box with thin and smooth drawing on the black heavily decorated with gold shading know: before - a Palekh lacquered miniatures. It is based on a long local history of icon painting. craft icon painting emerged in the thirties in village Palekh of the Ivanovo region.
Despite the fact that the Church seeks to fulfill precisely every element of the icon, Palekh artists did it in their manner of writing faces, figures, landscape elements, buildings, cars, etc.. On the icons you can see some domestic details such as furniture, clothing, weapons harness horse. Some of them have been preserved in the painting today Palekh miniature art changed a little creatively.
Palekh painting is not born by chance. It is the result of old traditions-century in new historical conditions based on knowledge of painting crafts icon of several generations. Their methods have been rich and varied. From the beginning Palekh artists are very study and maintenance of old traditions of Russian art. Therefore, an icon and a good run in the spirit of Palekh miniatures have much in common. After the Revolution of 1917, when the company's icon in the deepest of declines, Palekh masters tried their hands at the art table wood decor, kitchenware, toys, dishes, porcelain and glass . In fact, the most interesting has been painting paper mache boxes that became the black lacquered miniature.
The miniature is run by the veneer of tempera paint on a paper-mache. Palekh painting color 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, bylines, and songs. They are painted with bright paintings on the local black background and are known for their slim and smooth, plenty of shade of gold, and the silhouettes of flattened precise figures, which often cover the surface of the eyelids and Articles sides completely. poetic magic of the Palekh characters, decorative landscapes and architecture, and elongated proportions of the figures returned to painting traditions icon. The miniatures are usually left with a complex pattern made of gold dissolved in aqua regia.
Palekh lacquer miniatures are painted on articles - caskets and boxes, brooches and hairpins for ties, a panel and ashtrays and many other little things made of paper mache.
The process of making Palekh articles is the following: The first operation in the manufacture of these gems of folk art is the cutting board. The cardboard strips are coated with flour paste, placed on circular or rectangular mold and pressed. After the material is provided with a coating of linseed oil hot. The pieces are delivered carefully checked to carpentry. Then the undercoat is applied to the item with a steel knife. The exterior of Palekh articles is painted with black lacquer. The interior is painted with red lacquer. The final operation before painting: about seven coats of transparent oil varnish is applied to the outside and inside the article. Each applied layer is dried in the oven for 9 hours at 90 ° C.
The articles are now ready to be handed to the artists. The artist's work begins with the preparation of the paint. In Palekh the paints are mixed with egg emulsion. The yolk, separated from the white, returned to the hull, where a mixture of water and vinegar is added. Then, the emulsion is stirred with a special brush. Before painting the article, the.