THE EASTER EGGS IN STOCK COLLECTION TRANSCARPATHIAN MUSEUM OF FOLK ARCHITECTURE AND LIFE

Abstract

The article deals with the collection of еaster eggs of the Transcarpathian museum of folk architecture and life, which has about 400 storage units. The collection presents many varieties of techniques for decorating eggs: traditional (wax painting equipment, natural-lacquer technique, crayons, drapanki) and modern (beadwork, painting with aniline and water-colored paints, quilting, decoupage). The author mentions the years when еaster eggs arrived at the museum collection. The author gives a brief history of the emergence and development of Easter eggs in the world in general and in Ukraine in particular: the appearance of the first Easter eggs, the peculiarities of their forms, sizes, methods of decoration, materials used in this process. The author focuses on the collection of Easter eggs. Over the years, the arrival of Easter eggs in the stock collection can be traced to the dynamics of interest in the institution with this type of decorative arts, since 1968 and to this day. All pysankas are analyzed according to the techniques of execution. It describes in detail the selection of materials, the technology of applying different techniques of decorating eggs, the choice of ornamentation and color. The most typical technique, according to the author, is the technique of wax painting. Among the most widespread in the museum collection are also eagles, drapans. There are museum collections and author's pysankas, decorated with beads, threads, as well as pysankas, made by modern techniques of quilting and deck patches, decorated with groceries. Separately, the author investigates the color of Easter eggs of Transcarpathian, which has its own local features. Single-colored Easter eggs were distributed in the valleys, 2-3-colored - from lemmas and baikos, multi-colored Easter eggs – in hutsuls of Transcarpathian. In general pysankas is one of the phenomena of ornamental art in Ukraine. They are the subject of customs, rituals and symbolize the greatest Christian holiday - the Resurrection of Christ. Easter eggs and Easter eggs have always been, and still remain, a significant component of the folk culture of not only Transcarpathian, but Ukraine as a whole.