Arts and crafts - the basis of the beauty of the objective world

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

At the heart of this art is the need for beauty and comfort. Items that have a household purpose, often used by a person, need not only a reliable structure, but also a beautiful appearance. If a person is surrounded by ugly objects with heavy shapes, then the mood will quickly come to naught, and this is very unhe althy. Applied art covers a broad category of everyday items: dishes, textiles, interior items, weapons, cars, costumes, jewelry, decorations and things for children.

Kinds of arts and crafts differ in the way of processing blanks, the material itself, its properties of texture and texture. When processing metal, casting, chasing, forging and engraving are often used; less often - carving and painting. In general, carving, painting and inlay, as types of decoration of decorative products, are well applicable to wood, ceramics and glass. Textiles and leather can also be inlaid with sufficiently solid bases, but, nevertheless, embroidery and heeling techniques are usually used for these materials. For light fabric, batik art is popular - this is painting with liquid paints withusing reserve compound or wax.

Applied art is not only an activity, but also an essential attribute of the social environment: it culturally educates people and instills aesthetic values in them. The surrounding object world is always a part of the architectural concept. The form and purpose of the objects inside it often depend on the form of the building, therefore, on a single territory, the concepts of architectural style and the style of decorative art objects are closely intertwined. Originating in ancient times, arts and crafts has turned into the most important area of folk crafts, developing on an industrial scale.

In the city of Moscow there is the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, unique in its content, which houses many collections created from the late 18th-20th centuries. The decorative and applied products of Russia of this period amaze with their antique value and escort everyone who touches them with their eyes to their distant and mysterious eras. Collection items are fragile witnesses of changing fashion, way of life and grandiose political changes. The museum building itself, whose façade was periodically renovated during the same period, is a monument of Russian architecture.

The Museum of Applied Arts stores both private collections donated to the museum, and items that have the role of historical heritage. Diversity inspires: pleasing to the eye are European,Russian and oriental fabrics; all kinds of artistic metal products and jewelry; fine collectible porcelain; incomparable glassware and even a rare collection of samovars. The museum's library contains unique manuscripts and books. There are no analogues in the collection of works of Russian Art Nouveau, in the collection of Soviet propaganda art, as well as in the magnificent works of contemporary artists for whom arts and crafts is a way of life.