Gourd art

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Gourd art featuring a tiger

Gourd art involves creating works of

art medium. Gourd surfaces may be carved, painted, sanded, burned, dyed, and polished. Typically, a harvested gourd is left to dry over a period of months before the woody surface is suitable for decorating.[1]

Gourd decoration, including

Nuxálk and Haida nations of British Columbia
. Gourd crafting and painting has evolved from early hand carvings to the modern day use, by some, of electric wood burners and high-speed pen-shaped rotary tools that can be used to inscribe almost any design.

A wide variety of gourd shapes and sizes yields an array of art pieces, including: ornaments, bowls, sculpture, vases, and wall art such as masks.

Artistic styles can range from craft to fine art. Perhaps the most prolific and successful gourd artist in the United States is Robert Rivera of New Mexico.[3]

The American Gourd Society, headquartered in

Home & Garden Television. No longer considered just a craft, gourd art is being elevated to the point where it has been featured in a number of galleries and magazines and exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.

In 2003, gourd artists from the United States, Australia, and Canada got together to create the world's first Gourdpatch quilt.[4] Each artist brought their particular artistic style to a flat 4" × 4" gourd tile which was stitched together to create a quilt.

History

At the time of the Ottoman attacks on Croatian regions, more precisely in the period from the end of the 15th to the end of the 17th century, the Ottomans brought to Croatia many plants that are still popular today, such as cherries, watermelons, melons, quinces, some types of apples and squash, which in some Slavonian villages they are also called Turkish women.[5]

The oldest carp squash in Croatia was mentioned in the Osijek Zbornik in 1956: it is a squash from 1734 (the year is engraved on the squash, but it is not known where the carp is).[6] In the years between the First and Second World War, Tuna Mikinac-Gabrin, Franja Kovačević-Ilišev, Marica Kovačević-Ružička, Antun Blaževac-Salerov, Iva Kadić-Sojdan, Šima Dretvić and Andrija and Franja Ivkovac are mentioned as excellent gourd carvers in various ethnological contributions. Specimens of their gourds can be found in various museums, and the largest number are in the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb.[7]

In the past, gourd painting was much more widespread in the area of the former Slavonian Military Border,[8] especially in Bošnjaci, Drenovci, Babina Greda, Gradište, Soljani, Cerna, Štitar and Račinovci.[9] In the mentioned places, pumpkin painting was not always equally intense: the number of painters changed or only a few stood out for their skill.[10] Today, this art in its original form is mostly preserved in Gradište.[11][12]

Ilija Dretvić-Filakov, folk writer and storyteller, was the most famous and prolific pumpkin painter in Gradište, a village where pumpkin painting was nurtured in the families of Franja and Đula Dretvić, Kate Žigmundovac, Ivan Ivanšić-Martino, Ruža Mikulić, Marko Kadić and Marko Nikolić.[13] It is still cultivated today in the families of Marica Stojanović, Ivan Jovanovac-Jerkovi and Đura Jovanovac-Jerkovi, and Marica and Kate Nikolić, and one of the youngest painters in the city and promoter of this traditional art is Vinko Babić, whose colorful gourds are as a special gift in 2016, it was also given to the Japanese emperor Akishino.[14]

Worldwide examples

  • Birds of Peru in a fruit tree, by Ivonne Alfaro-Nùñez and Cristian Alfaro-Nùñez of Cochas, Peru. This gourd is three inches tall.
    Birds of Peru in a fruit tree, by Ivonne Alfaro-Nùñez and Cristian Alfaro-Nùñez of Cochas, Peru. This gourd is three inches tall.
  • Gourd art by Nurettin Taskaya
    Gourd art by Nurettin Taskaya
  • Gourd art by France Benoit
    Gourd art by France Benoit
  • Gourd art by France Benoit and Anne Simard
    Gourd art by France Benoit and Anne Simard
  • CardinalAspens - Gourd Art by Bonnie Gibson of Arizona
    CardinalAspens - Gourd Art by Bonnie Gibson of Arizona
  • Selection of gourd art by Susan Davis from Sylva, North Carolina.
    Selection of gourd art by Susan Davis from Sylva, North Carolina.
  • Two ornamental gourds made by Vinko Babić, a folk artist from Gradište, Croatia.
    Two ornamental gourds made by Vinko Babić, a folk artist from Gradište, Croatia.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0764328299
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  2. ^ Neimeyer, Karen. "Gourds In American History" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  3. ^ "Gourd Art by Robert Rivera". Kachina House. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  4. ^ Macfarlane, David. Gourd Patch Quilt, Beyond the Basics Gourd Art. pp. 76–79.
  5. ^ Lechner, Zdenka: Šaranje tikvica u županjskom kraju, u: Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva, Vol. 11-12 No. 4-5 (1983), str. 80.
  6. ^ Lechner, Zdenka: Šaranje tikvica u županjskom kraju, u: Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva, Vol. 11-12 No. 4-5 (1983), str. 82.
  7. ^ Lechner, Zdenka: Šaranje tikvica u županjskom kraju, u: Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva, Vol. 11-12 No. 4-5 (1983), str. 80.
  8. ^ Matasović, Antun: „Slavonske graničarske tikvice“, u: Narodna starina : nepovremeni časopis za povijest kulture i etnografiju južnih Slovjena, knj.1 (1922), 2, str. 146
  9. ^ Lechner, Zdenka: Šaranje tikvica u županjskom kraju, u: Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva, Vol. 11-12 No. 4-5 (1983), str. 77-79.
  10. ^ Lechner, Zdenka: Šaranje tikvica u županjskom kraju, u: Godišnjak Hrvatskog etnološkog društva, Vol. 11-12 No. 4-5 (1983), str. 79.
  11. ^ Siscia.hr – Šaranje tikvica (objavljeno 3. listopada 2019.), pristupljeno 17. studenoga 2020.
  12. ^ HRT Magazin: U selu Gradištu još se uvijek šaraju tikvice (objavljeno 3. rujna 2015.), pristupljeno 20. studenoga 2020.
  13. ^ "Tikvice". www.gradiste.com. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
  14. ^ HRT – Radio Osijek: Šarane tikvice iz Gradišta na dvoru japanskog cara Archived 2021-03-12 at the Wayback Machine (objavljeno 25. svibnja 2016.), pristupljeno 20. studenoga 2020.

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