"Wonders of iron in Yekaterinburg
Today, September 22, the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts presents "Wonders of the iron in the framework of activities commemorate the 110 th anniversary of the World Art and Industrial Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and the famous iron Kasli pavilion.
exhibition provides a broad viewing audience a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the works of the Ural artistic casting from the museum. Some of these exhibits are extremely rare, and some rarities are shown for the first time. The exhibition includes small and elegant, functional items (candlesticks, podchasniki, ashtrays, jewelry boxes) and the sculpture genre, without which it can not do any study of XIX - early XX century. Each of the more than seventy of exhibits - a miracle of transfiguration Ural masters rough heavy metal in the true work of art.
emergence of art of iron casting was the result of the Europeanization of Russia, a strong domestic mining and metallurgical industries using domestic non-ferrous metals. Technical equipment of the factories and the technology of cast iron in the Urals, based on the advanced achievements of British and German industry.
no doubt that the higher results in the art of casting iron reached a master Kasli factory, he devoted a section of exhibition, which includes works made from models of famous sculptors, and articles whose authors have, as yet unknown.
Argued that single center, producing iron castings - is Kasli plant. Meanwhile, art castings were produced for more than twenty-Ural factories until the beginning of the XXI century. Often the best casting of these manufacturers are still accepted for Kasli. Much of the exhibition is devoted to production of fourteen little known to the general public Uralic ironworks, such as Kushvinsky, Kusinsk, Sverdlovsk, Bilimbaevsky, Sos'va, Upper Iset, Kynovsky etc. Viewers can compare for yourself and to identify differences in skill and technique of execution of works of different centers of the Ural art of iron casting, presented at the exhibition.
exhibition will run until October 24, 2010.
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