When the atheist Bolsheviks took power in Russia in the 1920s they approved a new art form with the intention of getting away from old-world relgious imagery. The art form,Palekh, is named after the 700-year-old village whose artists continue to produce it today. But these days it is becoming far less popular.
These papier-mache boxes painted with images from mythology or folklore, painstakingly gilded with real gold and varnished, once commonly sold for thousands of dollars. [READ MORE HERE]
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