THE SYMBOLISM OF INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTS OF VIETNAMESE FOLK PAINTING DONGHO FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE ASTRAKHAN ART GALLERY NAMED AFTER P.M. DOGADIN
The article describes such a type of graphics as woodcut, in particular, a folk picture created in the schools of the village of Dongho, Baknin province. After entering the Astrakhan Art Gallery in 2002-2010, Vietnamese splints become an interesting subject for studying this type of Vietnamese folk art crafts. The article provides a stepbystep description of the processes of creating splint paintings, and also notes their thematic diversity. Special attention is paid to the most popular subjects of Vietnamese folk pictures: «Frog School» and «Mouse Wedding», which are currently in the collection of the Astrakhan Art Gallery named after P. M. Dogadin. The author focuses on the relevance of the development of the topic, which consists in solving the issues of supplementing the attribution of the presented works (the symbolism of individual plots).