• Лубок
  [lu-bok]

🔻Lubok, the cheap popular print is a Russian folk picture made by means of impression on paper, applied by a wooden printing block.

🔻Sold in the fairs as early as in the XVII century up to the beginning of the XX century, this popular print was considered one of the most mass arts of Rus'.

🔻The subject of the popular prints was quite various: ranging from religious and moral ones from folk epos and fairy tales to historical and medical ones.

🔻Townspeople and peasants willingly bought inexpensive, bright goods - fairy tales and parables, historical and biblical stories, instructive drawings dedicated to vicious addictions such as drunkenness or greed, illustrations for famous folk songs, pictures with pretty young ladies or views of cities.

🔻Nowadays this kind of craft is still alive and even popular in Russia.

Pictures: Marina Rusanova (1-3), Andrey Kuznetzov (4-7), lubok_RU (8-9)

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