Applied Arts
"New Gallery" Art Funds,
established in 1989 in Moscow, specializes in Soviet art of 1920-50s. The
principal programme of the Art Funds is to revive and reveal the artists' names,
which were undeservedly forgotten for different reasons and were not duly
appreciated in their time. The period of 1930-50s is not well known by art
admirers and did not have proper professional reviews.
Everyone is familiar with the term
"Socialist Realism", which is associated with the official art of totalitarian
Stalin epoch. Still there were artists that belonged to the same art school, but
had informal works, that remained unknown to the public.
Applied Arts has its special place.
It consists of two component parts:
Authors' works: castings,
ceramics and other plastic arts (# 3,4) and Commercial production:
porcelain and glazed earthenware (#1 a and #1 b), majolica, biscuit etc (#
2).
Both #1 a and #1 b (unpainted white
earthenware) can be objects of collections. As for #2, not a single piece is an
exact replica of the same lot of casting, because salts reaction during glazing
is different.
Main Tendencies and Aspects
- Commercial production of
plastics:
- Porcelain, painted glazed
earthenware;
- Porcelain, unpainted glazed
earthenware.
- Majolica, fire-clay, biscuit
etc.
- Authors' works.
- Other articles.
Main
Manufacturers
- Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
(Leningrad)
- Dmitrov Porcelain Factory (town of
Verbilki, Moscow region)
- The town of Gzhel
- Dulyovo Porcelain Factory (town of
Dulyovo, Moscow region)
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