Oriental motifs in the products of the Kyiv Experimental Ceramic Art Factory

Abstract

The aim of the study is the problem of preserving and popularizing the cultural heritage left by a bygone era. In porcelain art, like in no other material, the ideals and aspirations of people who lived in such a simple twentieth century were captured. These ideals, visualized in samples of industrial production of porcelain factories, can tell a lot about that time from an unexpected angle. We must do everything so that the subject matter of these works is studied and systematized, and the data on them is introduced into scientific use. Ukrainian enterprises, which, due to their proximity to kaolin deposits accounted for half of the total number of all-Union enterprises in the industry, went through all the stages of formation and development characteristic of other industries of the USSR light industry. The Kyiv Ceramics Art Factory, as the flagship of the industry, was no exception, and took the leading position in the quantity and quality of the developed samples of art production. Since today the model room of the enterprise has been lost, our task is to restore archival materials, collect visual information about the artistic achievements of the factory laboratory, and study the theme and style of creativity of each artist and the enterprise as a whole. But this article poses a narrower task – to study the influence of the culture of the countries of the East on the artistic expressiveness of Kyiv porcelain.