Brief biography of Palekh

According to legend, its name comes from the verb “foul”. According to legend, people fleeing the invasion of the Tatars fled from Vladimir and Suzdal into dense forests. They burned the forest by the river and built on this place the house, calling the formed village of Palekh among the fled were monks-icon painters. They originated in Palekh icon -painting fishing.

In the 17th century, Palekh masters were engaged only in painting icons and churches. They also painted and restored the most iconic cultural monuments: the granular chamber of the Moscow Kremlin, the temple of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, the Novodevichy Monastery, the main feature of the craftsmen style could be observed in the icons of a miniature, or petty, work.

A small surface contained a whole scattering of tiny images and many mini-jackets with thinly drawn faces of saints. The former masters were forced to turn to peasant work, as there was a ban on the virtuoic detail of the painting after the October Revolution, since there was a ban on icon painting. In the X years, some Paleshan began to paint wooden boxes, trying to revive their art in a new time.

However, the new products did not attract attention then, taking the Fedoskino miniatures on black caskets and caskets from papier-mash as a sample, Paleshans began to do the same, but using icon-painting technology. The products were immediately “shot” at the All -Union Agricultural Exhibition of the Year: the masters received a diploma of the first degree of artists of the new type of art.

The artists themselves made varnish and papier-mash and wrote egg paints using created gold on boxes. Everything - in compliance with the traditional icon -painting style, the Italians even asked to send several people to organize a school in order to also create such magnificent miniatures, but Russian artists remained at home. In the year, Palekh painting thundered all over Paris, bringing the West Gold Medal from the World Exhibition, for the first time seeing the original Palekh art in the Venetian art vernisage in the year, was subdued by the talent of Russian masters in the year, the Union of Artists Palekh arose, which turned the Palekh art and production workshops of the artistic fund of the USSR in the year.

Palekh painting X - early x, played with all the lights on souvenir cards, caskets, trays and stamps, becoming an integral symbol of the country. The art of Palekh masters opened for the next era the capture of the city of Vladimir Tatars. The icon painters flee to the forests of the village on the Paleshka river. There are 47 yards and the souls of the male population appear the first family icon -painting workshops.

The best craftsmen are considered the Kurtsev Paleshanes painting a local crusads of the Voszvozhensky temple. According to Professor A. Bakushinsky, this is “the last great wall -painting ... of the ancient Russian religious picturesque tradition” the first professional icon -painting workshop. The initiator-L. Safonov lives in the village, half is engaged in icon painting by the historian of art Georgy Filimonov after a visit to the village: “...

In the case of icon painting, no area can be compared currently with Paleh” Paleshans Belousov’s artists are painted by the granular ward of the Moscow Kremlin after the revolution, the artist I. Golikov writes his first lacquer miniature “Adam in the paradise”. A style that will later be called Palekh. The inspiration is a black box of papier-mash with a multi-color painting from Fedoskino new products receive a diploma of the 1st degree on the All-Russian agricultural and industrial exhibition created the "Artel of Ancient Painting" in the painting of papier-mash products.

Palekh caskets conquer foreign exhibitions, the Palekh art school named after M. Gorky, the brigade of artists, led by N. Zinoviev, is restored by the external frescoes of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin Paleshans, a lacquer was restored in the Monplazir Palace in Petrodsa Palekh production workshops awarded the Order of the Order “Sign Honor "