Palekh miniature
Russian folk handicraft
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Palekh miniature (Russian: Палехская миниатюра) is a Russian folk handicraft of a miniature painting, which is done with tempera paints on varnished articles made of papier-mâché (including the creation of small boxes, cigarette cases, and powder cases).
History
Palekh Russian lacquer art on papier-mâché first appeared in 1923 in the town of Palekh, located in the Palekhsky District (Ivanovo Oblast). It emerged from a long local history of icon painting which was suddenly threatened at the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 which suppressed religious art. To preserve their heritage, skilled icon artists applied their traditional techniques like tempera and gilding techniques to a new secular art form inspired by Fedoskino lacquer art. Instead of religious imagery, the first Palekh boxes depicted fairytales and folklore scenes.
An allegorical representation of the Third International in a 1927 Palekh miniature by Ivan Golikov.
A scene from the fairy tale Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf
Palekh on Soviet postage stamps
1958 stamp
Demon by A. Kochupalov.
Vasilisa the Beautiful by I. Vakurov.
Snegurochka by T. Zubkova.
Summer by K. Kukuliyeva.
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References
External links
Media related to Palekh Miniature at Wikimedia Commons- Palekh Miniature
