Marquetry furniture5850036
The ability of marquetry (inlaid wood) became known 100's of years ago. However, even with one hundred years, it has not lost its relevance,giving the planet the amazing in the beauty products that will beautify even the royal chambers. The very fact the area is themarquetry around the modern art market, the portal AuctionLot said Nikolai Serov, a famous Russian master of order marquetry pictures.
- Please inform us just a little about yourself and just how you will get were only available in a rare art form - marquetry.
- I had been born in Sokol, Vologda region, my family has been creative individuals. According to the stories of his father, mygrandfather, who died in the front in 1943 in Leningrad, he would have been a famous cabinetmaker. A grandmother was engaged in lace(weaving Vologda lace) and was considered among the masters in the commercial one of the best. Her works were for export only. Myfather - also comprehensively developed personality about him said: Master golden hands
My passion for different types of applied art began throughout his school years: woodcut, relief carving, geometrical carving, chasing, - it was interesting. However a really strong impression on me the picture I saw, came once to see a friend. It turned out a tiny operation onRussian folk tales, carved from pieces of kinds of wood and composed as a mosaic, in one unit. I then was surprised, wherever possible, only using natural wood minus the colors, make sport of texture and color to decide on ??? Only years later Ilearned it's my first encounter with marquetry style. Gone will be the years and decades is to learn this art and master it toperfection.
- Earlier in Russia could order items with marquetry only very wealthy people, today the situation changed or wooden inlay isstill purely available to the elite?
- Indeed, before such products in tsarist Russia could afford only very rich people - Count Sheremetev, Golitsyn, Tsar AlexeiMikhailovich and the court nobility. I believe that today your situation have not changed. True inlay available is still just the elite, butnew technologies allow to produce simplified kinds of marquetry, but they are far inferior to manual work. There's no question that theproduct wear stream, should never be the masterpieces from the highest level.
- Everbody knows, the therapy lamp received the best flowering of art in Europe differs from a Russian school of marquetry fromWestern European?
- Progression of the Russian school of marquetry was closely for this growth and development of this art in several Europeancountries. Teachers of Russian masters were outstanding artists of Italy, France, Holland. This, for me, is a result of having less a unified style, a sort of layering, which was the hallmark of the sort of art in Russia. I was able to take up the very best of the setand create something with their diversity.
- In tsarist Russia unit is only able to take care of marquetry, these kinds of art require special knowledge and talent. The amount of artists today,able to create masterpieces from wood?
- To date, the actual masters, capable of create masterpieces of wood Body, as this form of art requires perseverance, attention,understanding of the many types of trees, a feeling of taste, style and talent to post a tree in color, texture. Specialists, whoare fond of marquetry can be called through the names of everybody that's considered an expert in such cases. Each master their ownstyle, its own personality.
- As much as today, popular products, made in the style of marquetry? In fact, they're more like the traditions of bygone centuriesand poorly along with modern design.
