Easter Egg Cut Out Paper Ornament Wycinanki Polish Folk Art by Doris
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Polish Folk Art Wycinanki Cut-Out-Paper on Large Easter Egg by American Polish Chicago Artist Doris Sikorsky. Egg is about 4”x2” . The art on the egg is like a mirror image, the blue & pink flower on top is the same as the bottom & colorful rooster and orange/red/yellow/tan/green tulips also are the same on both sides of the egg. The artwork is absolutely beautiful & stunning! Please reach out if you have questions, check out my other listings by her, & read more about the artist below if you want to know a little more.
Ms. Sikorsky recently passed away.Straw folk art design was just one of her talents.
Ms. Sikorsky went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied painting. In the mid-70s, she joined the Polish Arts Club of Chicago and began to study Polish paper cutting, or wycinanki (pronounced “vicheenonkey”), with the group’s elders.
Paper cutting has a long history. It originated as early as 300 AD in China (done with a knife on a block of wood) and was known in the Middle East in the eighth century. By the 17th century it had made its way to Germany, where they call it Scherenschnitte and execute it with surgical scissors. It surfaced in Poland in the 19th century and may have begun there with the functional, decorative cuts peasants made in sheepskins hung over their windows. Various regions of Poland evolved their own cutting styles and the folk art continued into the 20th century.
Please see my other listings of her work.
The summary above is from an old article about Ms. Sikorsky, which can be found here:
https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/active-cultures-whizzes-with-scissors/
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https://interactive.wttw.com/a/main.taf-erube_fh=wttw&wttw.submit.viewArtsStory=true&wttw.id=wycinanki.html
A Cut Above
Doris Sikorsky creates a riot of color with her scissors, one snip at a time.
This Chicago master of the Polish folk art of wycinanki (pronounced vi-chee-nahn-key) has been creating these masterpieces of cut-out paper since she was a child. Since the 1980s she has taken up the craft in earnest. Through the Illinois Arts Council Master/Apprentice program she has passed on to another generation this popular art form that has been around for more than 200 years.
The meticulous cutting requires patience and persistence. But when Sikorsky unfolds her paper and the symmetrical patterns emerge in bold colors, it's definitely worth the while.
Ms. Sikorsky recently passed away.Straw folk art design was just one of her talents.
Ms. Sikorsky went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied painting. In the mid-70s, she joined the Polish Arts Club of Chicago and began to study Polish paper cutting, or wycinanki (pronounced “vicheenonkey”), with the group’s elders.
Paper cutting has a long history. It originated as early as 300 AD in China (done with a knife on a block of wood) and was known in the Middle East in the eighth century. By the 17th century it had made its way to Germany, where they call it Scherenschnitte and execute it with surgical scissors. It surfaced in Poland in the 19th century and may have begun there with the functional, decorative cuts peasants made in sheepskins hung over their windows. Various regions of Poland evolved their own cutting styles and the folk art continued into the 20th century.
Please see my other listings of her work.
The summary above is from an old article about Ms. Sikorsky, which can be found here:
https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/active-cultures-whizzes-with-scissors/
Also check out
https://interactive.wttw.com/a/main.taf-erube_fh=wttw&wttw.submit.viewArtsStory=true&wttw.id=wycinanki.html
A Cut Above
Doris Sikorsky creates a riot of color with her scissors, one snip at a time.
This Chicago master of the Polish folk art of wycinanki (pronounced vi-chee-nahn-key) has been creating these masterpieces of cut-out paper since she was a child. Since the 1980s she has taken up the craft in earnest. Through the Illinois Arts Council Master/Apprentice program she has passed on to another generation this popular art form that has been around for more than 200 years.
The meticulous cutting requires patience and persistence. But when Sikorsky unfolds her paper and the symmetrical patterns emerge in bold colors, it's definitely worth the while.
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