1. Исследовательский проект по английскому языку
Муниципальное автономное общеобразовательное учреждение «Средняя школа п.Угловка»
Исследовательский проект по английскому языку
Тема: «English Folk Art Painting»
Выполнила: Багина Анна 9 «А» класс
Руководитель: Федорова Юлия Владимировна учитель английского языка

2. I know a lot about Russian folk art paintings
I know a lot about Russian folk art paintings. And one day I asked myself if there were any English folk art paintings.
The aim of my project is: 
to find out the information about English folk art painting
Tasks are:
to collect the necessary material about English folk art painting;
to make the presentation;
to present the project to the class.

3. Folk art is quite simply any decorative art or decor created by someone who was not professionally trained, far outside the guilds and apprenticeships that guided the style. From Colonial America to the valleys of Norway, local people have made due, creating handmade pieces of pottery, furniture, kitchen wares and sculpture. It’s a tradition as old as civilization itself.

4. The folk arts of England associated with the 'narrow boats' of the midland canals presumably cannot predate the boats themselves, and those boats were not in existence before the middle of the eighteenth century when the narrow canals were built. That is quite recent in art history terms. The first written and pictorial references to bright colours and painted roses and castles on canal boats do not occur until even later, in the mid nineteenth century.

5. “Narrow Boat Painting”
There was an extraordinary flowering of a new folk art at a time during the Industrial Revolution when many other old trades and traditional ways of life were withering away.

7. As a general rule, the outer surfaces of boats owned by companies tended to have large lettering and scrollwork, supplemented with geometric patterns. Roses and castles were primarily for the interiors, although individual owner-operators tended to have their boats decorated quite lavishly on the outsides. Some companies too, had decoration outside.

8. Roses and Castles
Roses and Castles has become the popular generic name for the naturalistic and pictorial elements of the traditional paintwork of the narrow canal boats.

9. The origin of the roses and castles found on canal boats is unclear
The origin of the roses and castles found on canal boats is unclear. The first written reference to them appears to be in an 1858 edition of the magazine Household Words in one of a series of articles titled "On the Canal", but while this shows that the art form must have existed by this date, it doesn't provide us with an origin. For some time, a popular suggestion was that it had some form of Romani origin; however, there does not appear to be a significant link between the Romani and boating communities. Other suggestions include transfer of styles from the clock-making industry or the pottery industry. There is certainly a similarity in style and a geographical overlap, but no solid proof of a link. There are similar styles of folk art in Scandinavia, Germany, Turkey and Bangladesh.

10. Narrow Boat Decorations
The boat decorations have lots of colours carefully contrasted in tone. Add to all that the boatwoman's domestic instincts, her distillation of all the outward signs of house dwelling respectability into a miniature parlour on the move, and the result was a wonderfully fertile field for the development of the folk art tradition.

13. “Rose and Joe Skinner, the Last of the Midlands Narrow Boat Folk” Colin William Dick Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

14. Conclusion
Perhaps it was the most impressive research I’ve ever done. It was so interesting to find new unknown for me information about English folk art painting.

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