WHEN LOVE IS GONE - WATERCOLORS - by ARTIST CORA TIANA

 

 

 

 

THE MIRACLE OF LACE PORCELAIN

Lace porcelain got its name due to its lightness and grace, as well as its resemblance to real braided lace. Most often, lacy porcelain figurines appear before us in the form of girls and girls, often ballerinas or dancers in fluffy, airy dresses, which consist of the finest lace with small, small holes. And specially selected delicate colors make these figures even lighter, delicate and weightless.

These delicate porcelain figurines are made using a process known as lace draping. It transforms delicate lace and other cotton fabrics into porcelain. Fabrics are draped by hand, then immersed in porcelain slip and after heat treatment are transformed into openwork porcelain patterns!

The process is believed to have been developed in ancient China, where raw silk was used for this. The most famous example, however, is the Dresden porcelain. Dresden laces began to be produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. But due to the imperfection of manufacturing, thin laces were very fragile and broke at the slightest touch. That is why there is so little and so expensive lace porcelain of that time, almost every figurine has chips.

Today, when creating "lacy" figurines, real lace is used, which is impregnated with porcelain mass, and then still wet attached to the sculptures. In ovens at temperatures above 1300 degrees, the textile base burns out, and the porcelain lace remains for centuries.

 

 

ROMANIAN ILLUSTRATOR ZORINA BALDESCU (fantasy - children)

Zorina Baldescu is a talented artist who gave the world the magical world of a fairy tale. Zorina was born in Bucharest in 1954. Graduated from the Nicolae Grigorescu Academy of Fine Arts in 1978, Faculty of Monumental Art and Restoration. Bachelor of Arts. Zorina Baldescu has participated in the most important national and municipal exhibitions. The artist's works were acquired by private collectors from Romania, Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Austria and Canada, including: portraits, still lifes, landscapes, paintings, reproductions, icons, decorative paintings .But the fairy tales illustrated by Zorina Baldesku are a special, magical and charming world. You can feel a sincere love for the audience, a flight of fantasy and admiration for the beauty of the surrounding world. The curious world invites you to enjoy the fabulous illustrations of the artist Zorina Baldescu.

BULGARIAN PAINTER - VASIL GORANOV

 

Vasil Goranov is a contemporary painter from Bulgaria. He was born in Velingrad in 1972 and studied at Veliko Tarnovo University.

His works are present in many international exhibitions and enjoy the appreciation of both critics and art lovers.

You will understand why after looking at some of his paintings:

 

 

Artist MARIA FOLGER