yvyyool: Stone-cutting art in Tuva

The Tuva stone-carving industry develops deep and solid traditions of creating sculptures of small forms from agalmatolite. This kind of soft stone has a very calm pastel shade, in which light gray and pink-brown colors are gently mixed. Depending on the method of decoration, the sculpture actively displays the color shades of the stone. The Tuva sculpture is at first glance simple, static. But this impression is formed only with a preliminary acquaintance. The features of static are really traceable here. However, Tuvan masters and last years have made significant progress in the transfer of the internal dynamics of the movement of figurines. This is achieved by dismembering the volume, giving the silhouette of the depicted animals a certain rhythm. Masters-stone cutters depict well-known domestic animals - camels, sheep, horses, goats. They are friends and helpers of man, the owner of the steppes, the herdsman. And because they are endowed with features of naturalness. Carvers love to portray animals as having a rest, feeding their young. Then the human attitude of the master to animals is especially clearly revealed, and through this and to the native nature.

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