Icoană, casa Șurdești, Muzeul Satului (1968)

Boris Zderciuc · 1968

Icon, Şurdești House, Village Museum. In 1936 on May 17, in Bucharest - the Romanian capital - a village was born. A village - museum, which was received with interest by the personalities of the time, but also by King Charles II. It is located in the north of the capital, on the shore of Lake HerăEste u being the result of over 10 years of complex researches conducted by the Sociological School from Bucharest, led by Professor and Sociologist Dimitrie Gusti. The monuments are located according to geographical and historical criteria. The camera lens brings in front of the viewer a picture from the Village Museum - icon, Shudești house. The icon about “Palorii Sunday” was worked by folk craftsmen from the center of Nicula, jud. Cluj, at the end of the nineteenth century. The icons from Nicula do not respect the hermines due to the size of the bottle. Thus, the naive Niculeni painters simplified the iconographic theme. The icon is made of: glass (hand-drawn glass), tempera colors, binders (linseed oil, bone glues), fixation solutions (vinegar, egg white, ox irons), gold and wood for the frame. Painting on the back of the bottle, in the “mirror” technique: drawn contours with the brush after the spring, painted with the brush, applied, cut, carved, carved, joined with feathers and wooden nails. Part consisting of the actual icon, the frame and the frame. The icon presents Jesus, riding the asin, at the time of entering Jerusalem. Jesus is greeted by people represented standing, dressed in clothes specific to Nicula and with branches of finic in their hands. The stage is framed, in the upper part, by a branch with flowers similar to sunflower and oversized leaves to the size of the characters. The fund of the icon is bicolor.