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In addition to the images, these folk prints also included a short story or lesson that correlated to the picture being presented. Russian scholar Alexander Boguslavsky claims that the lubok style "is a combination of Russian icon and manuscript painting traditions with the ideas and topics of western European woodcuts". [7]
Khokhloma (also Hohloma, Russian: хохлома; Russian pronunciation: [xəxɫɐˈma]) or Khokhloma painting (хохломская роспись, hohlomskaya rospis) is a style of Russian art traditionally painted on wooden household items. It is known for its curved linear features depicting vivid small flowers, berries, grasses, and leaf ...
Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in AD 988. [1] Initially following Byzantine artistic standards, these icons were integral to religious practices and cultural traditions in Russia.
Russian art expert Svetlana Katkova sorted all of Chestnyakov's paintings into two large groups. She says that the paintings in the first group are based on traditional customs and rituals of Kostroma province. The paintings in the second group are based on fairy tales that the artist himself invented.
Palekh miniature (Russian: Палехская миниатюра) is a Russian folk handicraft of a miniature painting, which is done with tempera paints on varnished articles made of papier-mâché (including the creation of small boxes, cigarette cases, and powder cases).
The four centers of Russian lacquer art [ edit ] The village of Fedoskino (Федоскино), located not far from Moscow on the banks of the Ucha River , is the oldest of the four art centers of Russian lacquer miniature painting on papier-mâché , which has been practiced there since 1795.
Gorodets artists traditionally have painted genre scenes (including merrymaking, tea drinking, the famous Gorodets horse with a horseman, and folk festivities), decorative images of birds and animals (including roosters, horses, lions, and leopards), and flower patterns. [2] Nowadays Gorodets craftsmen use similar imagery and motifs in their works.
The Russian art collection in National Museum of Serbia has 90 paintings, and numerous prints, etchings and was mostly donated by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. The Collection also has over 100 icons from the 15th to 19th century.