Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier painting of nude Vintage mid- to late-60s

Vintage mid- to late-60s

giving one or the other the upper hand

dyed a darker brown

The kin of these Japanese nesting eggs are the treen apples one sees around from time to time housing a spinning horse race game inside

and this one beautifully

Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier painting of nude Vintage mid- to late-60sI've been trying to find something written about folk art Soviet military snapshot portraits of this sort but have turned up nothing. There are other examples out there, which it seems most apt to describe as a form of trench art, since from what I've found they were limited to portraits of soldiers, who decorated the borders around their portraits, as here (those flourishes embedded in the print, not drawn on top.) I really love the effect, executed