From the Balkans to the Balkhans: figured parallels
December 01, 2017 | 17:42 |512
The Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan hosted an exhibition of exhibits of the National Museum of the village named after Dmitry Gusty. The collection of photographs and works of decorative and applied art presented during the Days of Romanian Culture told the Ashgabat people about the peculiarities of the Romanian folk costume and the traditional way of life of the peasants of this Balkan country.Larisa FOMINA
In the national dress of different peoples, you can find many similar motives, and at the same time it has completely unique features. At the exhibition, for example, great attention was attracted to an unusual headdress, richly ornamented with beaded ornamentation and peacock feathers.
It was impossible not to notice some commonness of Turkmen and Romanian jewelry. Fine handmade work and refinement of patterns used in decorations and colorful embroidery is perhaps the main feature that unites the artistic crafts of our two peoples. Romanian needlewomen, like the Turkmen, are skilled decorators who can create bright, expressive and harmonious images from colored threads.
And Romanian villagers are magnificent potters, blacksmiths, wood carvers and other masters. Like the villagers of Turkmenistan, they also store ancient rituals and customs, wearing national costumes for folk festivals, performing folk songs and dances.
So, through folk art, you can see in real life the ethnic parallels stretching from the Balkan Peninsula, in the part where it is washed by the Black Sea, to the Balkhan Mountains near the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea.
