scholarly journals “Oh, My Thoughts, My Thoughts…”: Olena Pchilka’s and Lesia Ukrainka’s Contributions to Epigraphic Embroidery

Author(s):  
Tetiana Brovarets
Keyword(s):  

The article focuses on the role of Olena Pchilka1 and Lesia Ukrainka in epigraphic embroidery development. Undoubtedly, Olena Pchilka was an ardent proponent of folk art purity. Following from this, there is a tendency to think that she was against all novelty in Ukrainian embroidery. Many researchers and antiquity enthusiasts refer to her authority when arguing against inscriptions on textile as a phenomenon resulting largely from printed cross-stitch on paper. However, not all embroidered verbal texts have been of print origin. Most of them were folkloric (or folklorized) texts. What is more, Olena Pchilka to some extent provided her own comment on epigraphic embroidery in approving Lesia Ukrainka’s rushnyk (embroidered runner) containing the inscription “Oh, my thoughts, my thoughts, woe is with you! Love one another, brethren, love Ukraine” (devoted to Taras Shevchenko). In modern embroidery, embroideresses reproduce the citation with new connotations of these words, thereby continuing the epigraphic embroidery tradition. The author illustrates the folklorization of oft-cited lines from Taras Shevchenko’s poetry with examples of epigraphic embroidery from her own Interactive Index of Folklore Formulas (Epigraphic Embroidery).

1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eske Mathiesen

Folk art is widely supposed to have come to an end with the coming of urban, industrial society, but activities persist which may be termed ‘folk art’ and which include, for instance, ‘family art’ — the creating, by a family, of its own visual surroundings and traditions. Folk art is a people’s art; it affirms and renews personal, local, and community experience; it is a shared activity which does not elevate the role of the ‘artist’. But libraries by and large document fine art, and thus, at least by implication, are associated with its values and appear to have nothing to contribute to the kind of social change which may be necessary if people’s art is to flourish.The text of a paper delivered to art librarian members of the Danish Library Association in November 1972, published in Bibliotek 70, no. 2, 1973, pp. 31-34, and now published for the first time in English.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noura Kamal

To obtain a deeper understanding about a society, it is important to look beyond the formal production of history and literature and consider fables, songs, folk poems, and proverbs which can reflect dimensions of the society that are usually neglected or forgotten about. Focusing on popular literature and folk art as a source of epistemological knowledge contributes to the construction of counter-narratives in Yemen. One of the major proponents of popular literature whose works serve as a key to understanding the conceptual worlds of the Yemeni people is the poet ʻAbd Allāh al-Baraddūnī (1929–1999). This blind scholar explored various types of popular literature and folk art in order to highlight the knowledge that generally is not documented but is an essential part of everyday life. Each of his genres has the ability to provide us with insights about Yemeni society such as forgotten historical events, the role of women in society, cultural beliefs, customs, practices, and historical events and circumstances that the society had to face. It is argued that, by focusing on the subaltern and marginal, al-Baraddūnī was anticipating trends in Western social science scholarship that have been apparent since the 1970s.


Author(s):  
Анастасия Юрьевна Королева

Имя Эрнста Людвига Кирхнера практически не рассматривается в ряду мастеров скульптуры. Однако, наряду с Эрнстом Барлахом и Вильгельмом Лембруком, он принадлежит к числу крупнейших мастеров скульптуры первой трети XX века. В статье рассматриваются различные периоды творчества художника и их отражение в искусстве скульптуры – от романтических увлечений народным искусством, в том числе африканским, и классического экспрессионизма до неореализма «Новой вещественности». Рассматриваются специфические особенности произведений пластики в зависимости от возможностей разного материала, их отношение к произведениям живописи, а также роль этого вида искусства в творчестве мастера. The name of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is very seldom considered in the series of names of sculptures. However, together with names of Ernst Barlach and Wilhelm Lehmbruck, his name belongs to the numbers of the great sculptors of the first third of 20-th century. The article deals with the different periods of the masters work and demonstrate, how they reflect in sculpture: from early romantic enthusiasm for the folk art, including African art and classic expressionism to the neorealism in form of «New Objectivity»/«Neue Sachlichkeit». The author says about specificity of materials in sculpture objects of Kirchner, also their interaction with painting and about the role of plastic in art heritage of painter.


Folklorica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Akhmetova ◽  
O. V. Belova

At the start of 2018, Zhivaia Starina journal changed ownership and is currently being published by Polenov Russian State Folk Art House (Moscow). The journal’s key topics for 2017 involve the role of tradition and innovations in folklore genres and the interconnection between folklore and folk mythology as well as between folklore texts and oral history. Additionally, Issues 3 and 4 feature sections to commemorate the 870th anniversary of the founding of Moscow and the centenary of the Russian October Revolution.


Author(s):  
Ф.М. ТАКАЗОВ

Мифологические песни-молитвословия занимают в устном народном творчестве осетин огромное место. Песни-молитвословия исполнялись в праздничные дни, за пиршественным столом, на свадьбе, в пути. Истоки мифологических песен-молитв восходят к традиционной застольной молитве и от них отличаются только наличием в тексте ритмики и рифмы. В молитвословных мифологических песнях можно выделить в особую категорию песни, которые звучат и как гимны, и как молитвы, отличаясь от последних развернутым сюжетом и законченной композицией. Семиозис нарратива мифологических песен-молитвословий никогда не становился объектом исследований, что не позволяло однозначно определять их место при нарратологическом анализе текстов. Исследуя мифологические песни, необходимо, прежде всего, отличать их «морфологию», структуру, чтобы с большей вероятностью выделить содержательно значимые компоненты. Описание принципов коммуникации мифологических нарративов базируется на разграничении сюжетных структур и дифференциации семиозиса мотивов. В зависимости от направленности жанровой стратегии мифологические песни осетин делятся на молитвословные, календарно-обрядовые, обрядовые, заклинательные и этиологические. В свою очередь молитвословные песни по формальным признакам можно разделить на песни-гимны (бессюжетные) и сюжетные. К молитвословным песням примыкают песни-заклинания. От заклинательных песен молитвословные песни отличаются развернутым сюжетом и композицией, а также объемом. Элемент заговора/заклинания присутствует в семантике и молитвословных песнях. Мифологическая песня изначально исполняла роль заговора/заклинания. Впоследствии, особенно нарастая сюжетом, мифологическая песня прошла путь развития от утилитарного мышления мифологическими образами до обращения к мифологическим образам как художественному приему. Mythological songs-prayers play an important role in the oral folk art of the Ossetians. Songs-prayers were performed on holidays, at a feast table, at weddings, on the road. The origins of mythological prayer songs go back to traditional table prayer and differ only in the presence of rhythm and rhyme in the text. In mythological songs-prayers it is possible to single out a special category of songs that sound both as hymns and as prayers, differing from the latter by an unfolding plot and finished composition. The semiosis of the narrative of mythological songs-prayers has never been an object of scientific research, which did not allow one to unequivocally determine their place in the narratologic analysis of texts. In investigating mythological songs it is necessary, first of all, to distinguish their "morphology", structure, in order to more presicely isolate meaningful significant components. The description of the principles of communication of mythological narratives is based on the delineation of plot structures and the differentiation of the semiosis of motives. Depending on the direction of the genre strategy, mythological songs of the Ossetians are divided into prayer, calendar-ritual, ritual, incantatory and etiological. In turn, prayer songs on formal grounds can be divided into songs-hymns (plotless) and plot. Songs-spells are attached to prayer songs. Prayer songs are distinguished from spell songs by a detailed plot and composition, as well as volume. The element of the plot / spell is present in the semantics and prayer songs. Mythological song originally played the role of plot / spell. Subsequently, the mythological song has evolved from utilitarian thinking to mythological images appealing to mythological images as an artistic device.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132
Author(s):  
Aida R. Gasharova

The article deals with Lezgi folk riddles. They can be a constituent element of many genres of folklore, although they exist in folk art as an independent genre. The analysis is focused on folk riddles in the “fairy tale” speech, as well as the use of various kinds of “mysterious” elements in the creation of folk tales. The riddle participates in the complication of many fairy tales. The role of the riddle in a fairy tale is controversial. Basically, the function of riddles in a folk tale is entertaining, but their role in fairy tales is also very significant for the formation of the plot. Riddles are firmly entrenched in a number of fairy tales to complicate them. Both folk tales and folk riddles are metaphorical. We study the traditional plots of Lezgi folk tales, in which we find riddles. The purpose of our study is to identify the multi-aspect interdependence of the Lezgin folk riddle as a plot-forming element in various types of fairy tales. Creative imagination often introduces a riddle into the plot of social and everyday tales “about wise answers” (“about guessing”), which most often contain the origins of difficult riddle problems. The relevance of the chosen topic is due to the lack of study of this issue in the Lezgi oral and poetic creativity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 376-380
Author(s):  
L. M. Polyakova ◽  

The article describes the author's practical experience in studying the basics of Russian folk embroidery, mastering the skill of embroidery on the best examples of traditional folk art from the country's museum collections, popularizing knowledge about arts and crafts creativity and spiritual traditions of the Russian people. Particular attention is paid to the role of mentors in the study of folk art.


Author(s):  
Manzura Narzikulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Folk Art ◽  

The article deals with the traditions of folklore in the works of Alisher Navoi, the role of mythology and folk art in the epic “Sabai Sayyar”, the plot of the epic in folklore, the connection of the main motives with folklore; folklore traditions in the interpretation of the composition and image system of the epic “Sabai Sayyar”; the sources of the plot of the epic “Sabai Sayyar” in the folklore of the peoples of the East and the artistic evolution of the epic plot are analyzed. The plot of the epic “Sabai Sayyar” is clarified in connection with the traditions of Uzbek folk epics.


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