issue # 31-32 (3-4).2005
Page. 15
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WESTERN PODILSK REGION FOLK ART CENTERS OF THE XIX - XXth CENTURIES In his monograph Ceramics Yu. Lashchuk (1969) attracted our attention to the XIXth century. It was the most creative period of pottery in Ukraine. Olena Diakiv, the author of the article, analyses the situation in Ukrainian pottery in early XXth century. Then there were 35 centers of pottery art; the best works were demonstrated at ethnographical and industrial exhibitions in L'viv (1877, 1894) and Ternopil. It was the natural material clay and small area of land plots that contributed to the development of pottery. Some of such centers were active till the middle of the 50s. Since the 60s the mass industrial production started and pottery trades were shortened. In the 70s such trades were suspended in Tovstyi Husiatynsky region, in Zalishchytsky region, in Kopychentsy, Pidhaytsy, Berezhany, Strusiv, Terebovli. They survived only in the village of Honcharivka, Monastyrsky region. In the 80s 15 families were involved in the trade, nowadays only 4. The author points out a number of reasons that influenced on creation of peculiar composition and decorative forms of the items made by the families, analyses the works which keep traditional principles. |
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