ART. JAPANESE OSHIBANA
PICTURES FROM DRIED LEAVES AND FLOWERS
to achieve unique effects, masters of this technique are willing to use any plant materials. Leaves, stems and flowers are first dried under pressure, then bonded to the basis for future paintings. Such work requires not only the remarkable imagination, but also patience and precision, because sometimes you have to work with the smallest, and also the fragile, parts.
Word oshibana (oshibana) translated literally from Japanese means" прессованные flowers". This art 600-летней history. For the first time in Europe it became known in Victorian times and is now experiencing a rebirth. This technique allows to use not only dried leaves, but also many different natural materials: algae, bark, husk, garlic and onions, wrap the eggs, moss, stems, buds and seeds of plants, overwintered leaves, turned into" скелет". The colour scheme is a special problem, because, dull in themselves, fragile items can still lose color when dried or already in the picture, from sunlight. Therefore, in this art it is important to combine contrasting colors so that the colors shaded and" подогревали" each other. Sometimes use paint, which is applied to the substrate, or on the materials themselves.
Source: https://kulturologia.EN/blogs/300918/40701/
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