This site is dedicated to exclusive
Matryoshka. Perhaps this is the only site in the Web which is going to publish photos and
information concerning only Matryoshka made by professional artists. What is the
difference between the artist-made Matryoshka and thousands of those "pretty girls
with Samovars" which smile us in Arbat street and Izmailovo park markets? To compare
they differ from one another like collectable porcelain dolls from any product of
"Ogoniok" trade-mark toys ("Ogonyok" is the toy factory in Moscow).
But now in Russia you can find some artists besides the number of handicraftsmen
making one and the same matryoshka year by year. There are some gifted artists who are
working at creating matryoshka as at any other "solid" work of art. By the way
most of the exclusive Matryoshka artists are successful painters or graphic-artists
educated by the best Russian Art-schools.
Some of those artists began to make matryoshka many years ago in their youth. But
even in that small craft they couldn't be false. Dolls made by them became the real
painting on a wood presenting now by famous galleries in the neighbourhood with serious
pictures and sculptures. Some authors have just a "queue" of customers now
waiting for their lovely one-of-a kind Matryoshka. Such customers know that buying this
doll they acquire not only Russian Famous Souvenir but the real picture of a gifted author
and also the story told step by step, from the "elder" doll to the smallest.
Artists often say that the special form and structure of Matryoshka Doll is the
symbol of personality and the projection of Space to a soul. Its
"simply-looking" form predisposite an artist to tell the story of Motherhood,
Love, or well-known fairy tales. Some artists turn to such serious topics as World History
or Bible Stories.
This site will completed with an information about new authors and new images soon.
As to the sale of Matryoshka, we have to inform our potential customers that the
most share of works you can see here are already sold, sorry. Usually our artists work by
orders. It is impossible to make an exact copy of the work you like, but the author is
able to follow your wishes concerning the style and the subject. |
