Palekh icon painting: origins and tradition
The article discusses origins and tradition of Palekh icon painting as an original and very specific art, reveals its living sources and identifies the main development trends. Many Palekh families of icon painters date back to the 17th century. The main features of Palekh’s creative experience are its folkness, whimsical fiction. The icon-painter is not interested in a spiritual world of a man, but in manifestation of a man in action. In pictorial interpretation of religious themes, it appears an element of fairy taleness, amusement, expressed in magnificent ringing decorativeness. A connection is also found between a Palekh artistic image and a poetic text, according to a plot of which icons were written. A master refers to his work as to an object of applied art, so he decorates and dresses up an icon. In conclusion, it is noted that Palekh icon painting brought new trends, developed them and created its own artistic tradition that has survived to our days.