Polish Arts and Crafts

[rdywenur]

Here is a link to some very excellent Polish arts and crafts. I don't usually see a good variety of selections of what is available.





www.cepelia.pl/english/index.htm

[Jaga]

Chris,

thanks for posting. I am glad that Cepelia has finally quite a nice website! Cepelia had problems to switch from the communistic monopole to the capitalistic free market but I was always hoping that it would survive the change - just by lowering its beaurocratic load

[pieter]

This topic about Polish folk and artistic handicraft was started by Rdywenur,
it is interesting to put this next to the other topics concerning the fine art!

[pieter]

Folk art

Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions, and traditional social values, of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture. Along with painting, sculpture, and other decorative art forms, some also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costume as folk art.
Antique folk art is distinguished from traditional art in that while it is collected today based mostly on its artistic merit; it was never intended as a category to be art for art’s sake. Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible "wimsical" antiques.
Characteristically folk art is not influenced by movements in academic or fine art circles, and for the most part, folk art excludes works executed by professional artists and sold as "high art" or "fine art" to the society's art patrons.
The turn of the 21st century saw an increase in work by self-taught folk artists, possibly because of the growing number of retired people with time to spend on new ventures.[citation needed] This 'grassroots art' movement is most visible in the states of Kansas and Wisconsin. The movement has been popularized on public television by the show Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations produced by KCPT in Kansas City, Missouri. A category of art that overlaps with folk art is naïve art.

Displays, museums and festivals

Folk art is seen in folk art museums and folk art festivals in the United States.
The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico has the largest collection of international folk art in the world. The collection, on permanent exhibit in the museum's Girard Wing, was donated by Alexander Girard.


Noted folk artists

Nikifor Krynicki ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikifor / www.ot-art.nl/Nikifor.htm )
Clementine Hunter
Edward Hicks
Elito V. Circa
Justus DaLee
William Edmondson
Howard Finster
Grego Anderson
Chris Flesher
Dottie Gantt
Alexander Girard (includes links to his unique folk art collection)
Joshua Johnson
Clyde Jones
Bob Justin
Dóra Keresztes
Diana Ona Kerpauskien?
Arnold Kramer
Eric Legge
Maud Lewis
R. A. Miller
Gertrude Morgan
Grandma Moses
Ammi Phillips
Susan Powers
Missionary Mary Proctor
Sharon K. Shubert
Leo Smith
Edgar Tolson
Claudia Vecchiarelli
Enoch Tanner Wickham

[pieter]

I want to link this posting of Jaga to this topic:

Polish, Czech and Ukrainian Scrapbooking
« Thread Started on May 31, 2007, 6:10pm »
Please, check it here if you are interested:

folkimpressions.com/paperstore//catalog/index.php?cPath=52