What is a decoupage?
Decoupage is a technique that allows you to imitate the artistic painting on any surface. At first glance, this method of decoration seems very simple. You need to cut the image to carefully cut or snatch from a napkin, a decapient card or even a magazine page, then glue it to the already prepared surface, draw parts with paints, and then fasten with varnish. Decoupage You can decorate any item from leather, fabric, wood, ceramics and plastic
In decoupage, as in any direction of decorative art, many secrets and nuances, which masters are rarely told. But the main principle of this technique is known: decoupage should be made so that it looks like a real painting. A good picture in the technique of decoupage does not distinguish from the picture drawn from scratch
Who invented decoupage?
Decoupage, like many decoration techniques, came to us from a very distant past. Many centuries ago in Eastern Siberia nomadic tribes decorated the graves of the departed ancestors with images in the technique of decoupage. Then this technique was adopted by the Chinese and began to use not for the dead, but for living - they decorated furniture, dishes, lights. And already from the east, together with silk, spices and spices, the merchants brought decoupage to Europe.
In the old world, the Germans took the first to decoupage in the XV century. They have improved this technique and began to "paint" furniture: they applied pictures imitating paintings and inlaid gold.
Decade of decadal art is referred to the XVII century, and it happened in Venice. Then, once again, Europeans have woke up to the east, and the furniture in Japanese and Chinese style became incredibly popular. Venetian masters made items of an interior of incredible beauty, but despite this, not everyone considered decoupage with art. Many, especially the representatives of the nobility, looked at the furniture decorated in this way as a cheap fake, and were negotiatingly called the decoupage technique "the art of the poor."
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Decoupage was popular and in France at the court of Louis XVI. There masters painted furniture, interior items, walls in the halls and even jewelry.
But in England, decoupage "entered the people" and became a popular hobby from a poor people. In the middle of the XIX century, the production of first decoupage cards begins. They, of course, were not on rice paper, as modern, but also enjoyed demand
Then the decoupage moved over the ocean, where he began to develop with a new force. It is in the USA that he becomes popular not only among housewives, but also from designers. Professionals appreciated this way of decoration and began to actively use it in a wide variety of spheres.
But it lasts it for a long time: after the Second World War, he forgot about decoupage completely, and they remembered quite recently - at the beginning of this century. History Repeated: At first, the decoupage began to engage in lovers, and later he was "typked" again and appreciated the professionals
Tips for future masters:
What decorate the decoupage in the technique today? All! Interior items, New Year's toys, decorations and accessories, they decorate leather, suede and fabrics.
