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Carving of wood or stone (with soft materials)
- Various methods of treatment of wood have been known by the masters for a long time. They master the techniques of flat relief and round sculptures. Refined sense of materials, proportionality of ratio, and habits of rhythmical articulations of ornamented flatness have been developed over many centuries. Predominance of animalistic motives and thorough knowledge of animal habits are the main feature of wood sculpture.
- Stone is a favourite material of Mongolian craftsmen: Exceptionally many memorials of our ancestors represent the classical example of nomad art. The variety of forms and the stylistic manner of fulfilment have been handed down to the present masters. The diminutive motif and the plasiticity of sculptures wonderfully and positively transmit the disposition of a depicted art ware. Good knowledge of animal anatomy allows the craftsmen to create figures of fast horses and leaders in herd. The main werit lies in the ability of a master to express, by means of small plastics, the monumentality of the whole image and form.
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