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National Art Crafts of Chuvashia
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National art crafts The present century has put us before the necessity to realize specificity and spiritual value of the national creativity, local traditional school, uniqueness of the applied work. National crafts and crafts is an art. It was born during the process of working from natural aspiration to the beauty and creativity. From ancient times Chuvashia is famous for its talented embroideresses, good hands of beading sewing, of patterned weaving, potters , woodcarvers, foremen of musical tools, basking, horsehair, rod and leather network. Their creations amaze by the refined supple form, grace of decoration, the expressiveness and clearness of design. Jeweler's art and the blacksmith's work were good advanced in a deep antiquity. Ornaments, executed from bronze plaquesand zone buckles were popular enough. The traditional kinds of the Chuvash national creativity are alive. Our ancestors have left us the richest heritage. Today, due to a wide development of the international tourism, the general interest is shown to the original souvenirs. It results in strengthening of the creative activity and perfection of skill amateur of embroideresses, carvers, weavers etc. Fine and applied art in Chuvashia, which includes embroidery, weaving , ceramics, beading, woodcarving - what is it - trade, craft or art? The answer depends on the character of employment by that or other kind, sizes or volumes of manufacture of products and, certainly, on a level of professional skill of the executor, because the fine and applied art in all times was both craft, trade and art. We usually understand the word "craft" as a manual manufacture of products for satisfaction of personal needs of the foreman or his customer. It was always characteristic for various crafts that high personal skill of the handicraftsman allow him to make high-quality, highly artistic products, capable to compete to subjects of factory and machine manufacture. This feature had decisive value when home craft manufacture developed into craft for selling products in the market, i.e. became a craft, handicraft manufacture. Due to the nature of the trade, the national crafts always represented and represent now fine and applied art which has organized on the basis of deep national, art traditions in a combination with modern art - technical achievements, new figurative contents and principles of decorative expressiveness. The products of the national foremen speak convincingly, how the skilful hands of the talented creators create unique subjects of art. It is closely connected to a life of the people. Therefore studying the fine and applied art simultaneously turns to the study of a life of the people, that particularly ethnographic environment(Wednesday), where the subjects of art are created and used. Investigating, studying fine and applied art of Chuvashia, we open characters of the people, learning its history, modern life. The art of the embroidery of the Chuvash people has left bright traces in oral national creativity - in wedding songs the bride, legends etc. |
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