Creative activity of Gagauz master Peter Vlakh

Natalya Kalasnikova

Creative activity of Gagauz master Peter Vlakh

Authors

Natalya Kalasnikova

Keywords:

gagauzes, folk master, decorative pumpkin, the technique of burning

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the creation of the famous Gagauz graphic artist Peter Vlakh (19452012) who opened for the world the lost art of modeling of decorative pumpkin. The collection of the author s wares of decorative pumpkin kept in the Russian ethnographic museum of Saint Peterburg is analysed in the work.