Russian folk art ... What is its value?

Throughout life we ​​are surrounded by differentobjects and things. These are clothes, dishes, furniture ... They represent our second, man-made nature, reflecting the level of social development that influences spirituality. Therefore it is of great importance with what toys our children play and what things serve us in everyday life. In the old days, people surrounded themselves with objects that today seem to us as Russian folk art - a towel embroidered with flowers, colorful dolls, woven bright kerchiefs, decorated with ornaments wooden and earthenware sewn from the fabric of a doll.

Today we are surrounded by objects of everyday life,made on the conveyor. We do not cut out the kitchen cutting board as a gift to our mother and do not decorate it with scorched ornament, we do not embroider towels, we do not knit socks, because all this can be bought ready, beautiful and new. But for some reason our spirituality is sad and joyless. We do not sing to the children of songs before going to bed and increasingly suffer from depression, having forgotten how to create and make for the sake of the joy of their loved ones. But at the same time we vaguely remember that once Russian oral folk art was the basis of the education of the younger generation.

Today we earn money. Returning from work, at the same time we buy food. We come home and hurry to turn on the TV. It seems all right, but some kind of emptiness depresses us. We lack spirituality and aesthetics in life, therefore handmade articles again become very fashionable in all developed countries. The higher the level of human development, the more expensive our Russian folk art is.

Foreigners go to Russia to get acquainted withdecorative and applied riches of our people. Pottery, lace, Khokhloma, Palekh, painted caskets and written eggs - this is just a small list of wealth, which is Russian folk art - man-made, cheerful, with a colorful character. The very nature chose from these nuggets all the best and preserved for centuries, giving us unique traditions.

Even crafts made by a not quite skilled hand,drawings on lubke or birch bark have amazing power and convey the miraculous sense of beauty, because unknown masters performed these objects with love in order to please their relatives, decorate their hard life in a severe northern country.

Russian folk art gives us images,formed by the worldview of people. Even having peeked somewhere a story for his product, the master adds his vision and soul to it. For example, noblemen began to decorate their palaces with lions in the 18th century, and Nizhny Novgorod wood carvers peeped at the appearance of these wonderful animals and decorated their huts by cutting out on the wooden shutters and window-sills very good-natured lions reminiscent of the mugs of domestic cats.

Is this not a confirmation of the rule thatRussian folk art does not copy anything? It is always a separate and unique art, having roots in ancient times. By creating, our Russian people believed in good forces and coaxed them. So, embroidering a towel or a lower shirt, a woman depicted birds of paradise amidst bright colors. According to popular belief, when this bird sings, people for many years live in happiness and grief do not know. Sitting behind embroidery or behind a weaving loom, the woman sang heartfelt songs, drawing in the house good and happiness.