American Folk Art

Visiting the cardinal on-line sites devoted to Gilded Lions and Jewelled Horses The Synagogue to the Carousel helped me to heighten my knowledge of Jewish woodcarvers art, and I was also provided with excellent opportunity to look the works of American and European artists. I found out that American art has contributed developing of distinct Jewish culture within American boundaries. The works of art presented at the sites are really exuberant and better as they reflect the history of transformation and, what is more important, of survival of heathenish heritage.The exhibitions presented amounts more than one hundred works and objects, as well as documentary photographs of synagogue arks and carved gravestones, carousel animals and sacred carvings. I well-educated that Jewish immigrants had to struggle to balance their observant life with reality as it was difficult for them to adjust to new environment. Nevertheless, the near interested information I learned is about the hist ory of carousels and carousel animals lions and caters.My favorite image (see picture) is a standing horse with jeweled trappings made by Marcus Charles Illions. The horse is wooden, painted and decorated with glass eyes and jewels. Illions is known to create the most animated carousel animas and his horses seemed exhausted from their eternal gallop tempers. The horses were often entailed with infuriated eyes and they were flying in the air. Carousels gained popularity in American and one of the realistic reasons is that they were designed by diverse generation of immigrants who added distinct features to horses and lions.The carousel application flourished in urban centers of New York and Philadelphia as those regions were characterized by mass in-migration from countries with strong carving traditions. Mostly, carousel animals were designed by Italians, Germans and Eastern Europeans. whole kit and caboodle Cited http//www. folkartmuseum. org/default. asp? id=1869 http//www. gildedlions. org/ http//www. gildedlions. org/carousels. html http//www. gildedlions. org/welcome. html