2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
One of the characteristics of any nationality is its everyday culture or the history of everyday life. It is in everyday life that a person develops and his inclination to any activity, the disclosure of talents, preferences, tastes. Items made by craftsmen reveal the peculiarities of the mentality and culture of the people. Such items are called folk crafts.
Reflection of culture and life
From century to century, people have reflected their views on modernity with the help of creativity. If once decorative applied art was expressed mainly in embroidery, wood and metalwork, fine and ceramic art, then modern folk crafts have become more intricate and diverse.
What does it serve?
Decorative applied art includes works that meet aesthetic requirements,calculated on the final result, that is, the effect produced. They serve not only for aesthetics, but also for interior design and human life. What is decorative arts in the long run? These are garments, fabrics (for clothes and decor), carpets, furniture, glassware, porcelain, faience, jewelry and more.
The modern development of arts and crafts is based on the ideological, political, social, cultural and economic characteristics of the people, as well as the achievements of science. It manifests itself both in a wide range and in single objects or ensembles that come into contact with other types of art. Decorative applied art includes ancient peasant art, folk and classical art. Main types:
- Batik - hand-painted fabric.
- Tapestry - a lint-free carpet on the wall, which is woven by hand in a cross weave.
- Woodcarving is a type of processing of a wooden base.
- Ceramics - a method of manufacturing products from non-metallic and inorganic materials at high temperature; after the thermal process, cooling follows.
- Embroidery is needlework, when fabrics and materials with different bases are decorated with different patterns.
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development of arts and crafts Knitting - the process can be both manual and mechanical. It is based on the manufacture of products by continuous bendingthreads into loops and connecting them together.
- Macrame - artistic weaving with knots of rope, twine, fishing line, thread, braid.
- Jewelry craft - artistic production of jewelry from precious metals and stones, bijouterie.
- Leather processing - making household items and jewelry from genuine leather.
- Mosaic - the formation of a pattern using a set and lineup, followed by fixing stones, tiles and other materials on a plane.
The most famous folk crafts of arts and crafts are Khokhloma, Gorodets and Zhostovo paintings, Gzhel ceramics, Palekh, Msterskaya and Kholuy miniatures.
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