Folk religion icon painting - wood iconography

18-19 century, Vladimir Province has become the largest all-Russian icon painting center. Since the early 18th century came to a number of royal painter province, making the local icon painting crafts were professional. Here, in addition to the popular low-cost "selling" icon painting, but also began to paint custom "white gold" iconography。Vladimir icon painter firmly holding half of the art methods, portrait drawings and artistic characteristics of the next 17 centuries. Until the 18th century, 701 years, the icon painter Volga mainly inherited the 17th century DongCang and Yaroslavl famous painter's heritage. North of icon painting style was originally based on the Novgorod and Rostov school of painting formed, 16--17 century, some of the larger monastery north has its own icon and foreign painters whoIt played an important role for the development of northern icon painting. In Siberia, icon painting affected Ukraine, as many senior bishops here from Ukraine, they brought their own icon painter. In the Urals, icon painting in a largely moved from central Russia to this old ritual Unitarian promote development. But here's iconography is not "ancient Orthodox" style in style, but in the second half of the 17th century royal painter's "golden blank" style variants.
At this stage of folk art, in addition to icon painting, wood painting folk and religious or spiritual - moral theme of professional prints have also been developed. Modern research shows that private wood painting is the source of the late 17th century court printmaker. Their old copper in the 18th century also continue to be used in the design have to be more wear and tear after repair, the main lines carved deep. The result is printed out pictures and more rough, losing the details, not even the background of buildings and landscapes. However, this effect of drawing in full compliance with aesthetics and folk icon norms of the people, then this quality produced in accordance with a new wood painting.
Old rituals are cultivated Methodist painted wood painting, is 18--19 century Russian religious painting in the special one. In the 17th century, preserved in the ancient version of the religious books of patterns and colors style made based on a special plant-shaped decorative pattern. Old wood painting ceremonial Unitarian moral admonition almost all subjects, with a high artistic quality, is an integral part of the 17th century, half of the "weapons of the Department of School" painting traditions and folk art. Then make some major centers painted wood painted some old ritual Unitarian northern monastery and Shen Kursk, Card Kafelnikov and other regions.

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