Artistic Ceramics

The film tells about folk art crafts in the USSR. First part. Armenia. NDP mountains. An ancient temple in the mountains. A man plays a folk musical instrument (sinhr. Pipe)). Archaeologists are excavating in the mountains. NDP on fragments of ceramic objects at the excavation site. Village in the mountains. A woman bakes pita bread in a clay oven. An elderly craftsman makes pottery vessels. A panorama of earthenware jugs. Georgia. A passenger car drives along a mountain road. In the foreground are wildflowers. Settlement in the Imereti region - the center of the pottery industry in Georgia. Craftsmen exhibit pottery in the village bazaar. Tourists choose earthen vessels. A local potter makes a jug for wine (churi), pours wine with a special scoop. Artists paint clay jugs in a workshop (production of black waxed ceramics). The process of firing jugs in a sealed oven. A panorama of ready-made ceramic jugs on display in the room. The second part of. Ukraine. Field, forest, flowers (landscape). NDP for pottery. The village of [Aposhnya] in the Poltava region. Local potters paint pottery, toys with floral patterns, colored ornaments, using various artistic techniques (agnob, colored glazes, etc.). Master Averyanenko paints pottery figurines depicting animals, combining functional and decorative purposes. Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine A.F. Feluchenko at work in a workshop for the manufacture of original national clay figurines. Mountain river, mountains in the distance (landscape). Exhibits in the Museum of Folk Art of Ukraine: handicrafts: dishes made of ceramics, tiles for stoves from painted tiles, etc. Kosiv. Craftsmen paint earthenware vessels with a sharp awl, separate parts of the ornament are covered with a worm (red-brown engobe), colored glaze after firing. NDP on pottery vessels for everyday life (jugs, splashing bowls), ceramic painted products by O. N. Bakhmetyuk, a renowned master of Hutsul ceramics. A family of Ukrainian potters demonstrates their works outside their home. The third part. Baltics. Rural landscape. A man performs a melody on a folk musical instrument (pipe sync.)), Sitting on the shore of a reservoir. The girl weaves a wreath of wildflowers. People choose and buy products made from ceramics, wood and other materials. NDP on thick-walled clay vessels. Lithuania. Craftsmen paint ceramics with delicate floral ornaments using glaze and relief. Latvia. A potter makes ceramic jugs in a workshop. A young artist is working on the creation of ceramic figurines of folklore. Forest. An owl is sitting on a tree. Latgale. A local craftsman produces proportionally shaped pottery vessels using dry glaze powder. The process of firing finished clay objects. People choose ceramics in an arts and crafts store, visit a folk art fair and exhibition in Riga. Artists perform national dances in the meadow during the exhibition (sinhr.).

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Sound engineer A. Romanov