Русский ремесленник

At the rounded sides of the golden hospitable bowl depicts a bright red and black blade of grass on the body there are vases bend tender leaves and twigs with elastic, like a shining sun, black currant. On the surface of sugar, and solonitsy postavtsa - the so-called cylindrical container with a lid - and do thrive anywhere unseen golden flowers. A big bucket of "chicken" like the good fairy-tale bird. As the heat burns her fancy feathers, turning into flowers and intricate designs.
Fiery red bucket and a golden glow patterns really evoke the feeling of a hot flame of fire. And with good reason! The fire turned the wooden surfaces of these objects in gold. They blestyat metallic shine.

Why are things which will be discussed, referred to as "Hohloma" as they are born under the hands of skilled craftsmen and differ from other works of folk art?

While walking in the forest, field, river bank, do not be surprised you the beauty of his native land, abundant grasses of the meadows, over which the summer heat is a sweet honey flavor and buzz on the all voices shaggy toiler-bees?

Lie down on the ground and begin to consider a blade of grass to blade of grass, the flowers for the flowers, the leaf to leaf - how many of them similar and different from each other! Here and curly branches grassy, and patterned fringe yarrow, and flexible swords of sedges. They tend upwards, towards the sun, opening umbrellas, stars, cups colors blue, purple, yellow, white.

Did not stop you in awe somewhere on the lawn or in a remote corner of the primeval forest, zagljadevshajasja on tender spring greens on a black lace half-naked among the branches of scarlet and gold autumn lindens, birches, maples?

With all my heart loving side of the home and admiring it, the Russian people have long been not only glorified in songs and tales of its beauty, but also to create simple household items decorated with elegant colorful paintings, which were revived loved nature motifs.

True works of art are the objects - a beautiful shape, easy to use, masterfully executed. These include the "Khokhloma."

As depicted khokhloma artists?

The familiar three-toed hairy leaf, touching a star flower, bent twig, and, of course, it is - a small drop of forest sweets - strawberry.

Khokhloma artists like to paint on surfaces, their products strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, black and red currants, mountain ash. They call berries gently, and never even the same team can not write them the same way: a little change shape sheet, in another bend twigs, are scattered flowers and berries - and this same motif to speak to us in new ways.

In this variety of ornamental patterns appear and the richness of the creative imagination of the artist, and his skill and his powers of observation.

Look carefully and you'll see that in nature never any shape and color is not repeated with precision, but at least a little bit, but different.

List of strawberries can be large and small, and berries - a round or oblong. Color them while growing, always changing - from white, pink to bright red and deep-crimson.

So it turns out that at the same bush, you will not see the different shapes, different sizes and colors of berries and leaves.

But even one and the same berry, one and the same plant are volatile, others are a little bit from morning to evening, from one day to the next. Art khokhloma artists reflect this and their variability.

But the master does not seek to show the plants exactly such as we see them in the woods. Khokhloma decorative images - they are very generally give you the beauty of living life. This ornamentation - jewelry items. And so the impression of constant fluidity and changeability of living artists create change in their ornamental motifs.

Khokhloma patterns and ornaments

The pattern of flowers, herbs and berries called vegetative ornament. Khokhloma artists and say: "I am writing a floral ornament. But the species of this ornament in khokhloma painting a few.

The most beloved and ancient of them - "Grass ornament," or simply "grass". This elongated, slightly curved blade of grass, written by three, five and more - a bush.

"Grass" remotely resembles a resident of flood plains, coastal lakes and rivers-sedge. One species of this ornament is called "sedge". Still, he recalls that living grass very remotely, or, as the artists, the shape of this grass in this ornament generalized - the artist retained only the most general and its main features.

The grass was usually written in red and black. Its main broad and long leaves juicy because it takes a lot of brush, paint, and it lies close to the surface of the object. The tips of the leaves finely written, they curl, like a bend in the wind. Thin and frequent strokes, blade of grass on either side of the main bush, and bead-berries on long stalks make this painting is particularly lively and graceful.

"Grass" - an independent type of painting, but it is - a mandatory part of any plant ornament "khokhloma." Very often among the bushes and twigs of black, red, green or yellow grass artist puts the berries, flowers, birds and fish.

This ornament is also called "herbal" or the name of berries or flowers. Like a fiery wheel, rolling on the bottom of bowls a beautiful ornament carrot. It consists of a rhombus with a rosette and really looks like an old patterned printed cake. Around the diamond whirl grass.

The pattern of single herbs, running on the inner surface of the plates and large bowls, called "mushrooms", and the clumps of grass, coming from a single center in a circle, form a wall outlet.

Khokhloma patterns and resemble natural plants and not look like them. Their appearance and all the many properties of their shape and structure has never portrayed in the ornament in detail and with absolute precision. This song is different from the detailed story and the story - from recording observations.

Artist in the structure and form of plants shows only the most prominent, or as they say, the most characteristic. You always know the grass, although it is written in red or black, and the master did not draw the veins, which, if you look closely, patterned mesh covering the leaves.

Khokhloma murals decorate objects - bowls, spoons, cups, vases, round of the body which suggest themselves as to the artist, which bend the twig, where the scatter berries. The painting is subject to a form object.

But even on a flat surface they lay down a wavy pattern, because the basis of them, as many Russian ornament is intricately entwined twig.

Most intricate designs are called "Kudriny". Grass is turned into large curls Fine shot rings surrounded by fantastic flowers. Flowers and Curls-Kudrin always golden, like feathers fabulous firebirds they light up on the black or red background. Sometimes among the whimsical flow Kudrin modern masters really draw this bird from the folk tale.

Wishes for good, prosperity and happiness for a long time in Russia were considered the image of flowering shrubs and fruit. This fine tradition continues today khokhloma artists to decorate ordinary objects elegant paintings. And with them come to our house beauty and joy, who generously give to us masters of fishing.