Exposition «On the altar of time: the sculpture and folk icon of the XIX century» the Pushkin Museum in them. Alexander Pushkin
ARTinvestment.RU   08 мая 2008

May 6 at the State Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin an exhibition of ancient icons and sculptures from the collection of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko

6 May at the State Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin an exhibition of ancient icons and sculptures from the collection of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. Exposition «On the altar of time: the sculpture and folk icon X IX century» acquaint visitors with the work performed by skilled craftsmen of different regions of Ukraine in the XVIII and XIX centuries. For the first time in the department of personal collections of folklore presented.

total at about 100 exhibits: small sculptures depicting saints, the Crucifixion, as well as icons, which were an integral part of everyday life of peasants and kept in the village cottages. These shrines were created by unknown artists, who had no vocational education.

There are a number of sculptural images of Saint Nicholas, the way in which each master has its own characteristics, although there are many common features that characterize the image of the saint.

great, its wooden figurines of angels, who appear in images of boys and girls. These sculptures cut from a barrel, the core of which is not removed. Figure painted with tempera around until the end of XVIII century later - oil paint, red, cherry, ohristogo, blue, green, black or brown color, superimposed on a thin layer levcas, less - directly to the tree.

Many of the sculptural figures attract attention disproportionately short legs. This is because the artist began working with the top of the harvested wood, that is to cut the head and not the general shape of the figure. Each non-master, the last step in making sure that not enough material for proper follow-up to the bottom of the figure (legs or clothes), makes them a disproportionately short, but always carved pedestal. Sculptures of this kind were intended primarily for the church interior.

Visitors will also present a series of icons, a special place among whom are gutsulsky performed on the glass, making the picture a special, saturated colors. Icons created by hands unknown artists, naive, honest and give the presentation about the masters of the holy images. Ukrainian masters not strictly followed the canons, as did Russian iconographers. Their work has not been a golden background - a symbol of eternity, but the flowers were - as a reminder of paradise.

Currently, the Department of personal collections of work on a book about the history of collecting in Russia and abroad. Perhaps it will be the head of the Ukrainian and assembly.

Source: www.tvkultura.ru , www.museum.ru



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